I love haml/sass, but am I the only one that thinks the brackets in scss is an ugly step backwards? On that note, is sass staying around or is it going to be deprecated in favor of scss?

Not deprecated. Both SASS and SCSS are both fully supported.

SCSS is primarily intended to lower the barrier to entry for many existing CSS experts who want additional functionality. However SASS and SCSS work interchangeably and purely a preference. I'm personally using both, SASS on my own stuff, and SCSS whenever I'm working with a non-ruby designer.

That's really great to hear. It sounded like SaSS was going to fall by the wayside from some blog posts I read.

I am actually waiting for a scss stable release before I switch to sass. I want to work as closely to the original css syntax as possible.

The selector inheritance with @extend looks especially useful; it makes it much easier to take a DRY approach to CSS. There's a separate blog post on it here:

http://nex-3.com/posts/99-selector-inheritance-the-easy-way-...

w00t, awesome stuff in this RC guys :)