Hampton Catlin

Hampton Catlin (born 1982) is an American computer programmer, programming language inventor, gay rights advocate, and author best known as the creator of the Sass and Haml markup languages. Catlin now sits as the Co-Founder and CEO of Team Rarebit.

Creations

Haml

He created a lightweight markup language called Haml which he intended to be a radically different design for inline page templating systems like eRuby in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2006, Haml has been in constant development and has been ported to over 10 other languages. It's the second most popular templating language for the Ruby on Rails framework and has inspired many other templating languages.

Sass

In 2007, Catlin created a style sheet language to expand on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), used to describe presentation semantics of web pages. Catlin continued to work on Sass with co-designer Natalie Weizenbaum through 2008. Sass is now bundled as part of Rails.

In 2011, he co-wrote with his husband the book "Pragmatic Guide to Sass", published through The Pragmatic Bookshelf.