To be honest, I wish people would stop mentioning this project until it actually usable for real projects. I have attempted to build a sass task for Fez and failed when I realized that the core project simply does not have the ability to be configured to do very simple things. In the case of the sass plugin, Fez does not support globs, making it difficult/hacky to properly ignore files prefixed with "_", a well-known sass convention.
I agree that Grunt syntax is not fantastic. It has improved since 0.4 but the reality is that the average "long" Grunt build has a whole ton of customization thrown into the mix that is simply not possible with newer tools such as Gulp or Fez.
Additionally I really don't think that the comparisons are fair. Yes, it's nice to declare a fileset and define transformations on it, rather than defining transformations and declaring which files you want to use with each one. But I could easily show you an easy-to-read Grunt configuration that is just as simple as the ones you see in Fez or Gulp marketing.
I applaud what these tools are attempting to do, but we need to keep the comparisons fair.
I agree that Grunt syntax is not fantastic. It has improved since 0.4 but the reality is that the average "long" Grunt build has a whole ton of customization thrown into the mix that is simply not possible with newer tools such as Gulp or Fez.
Additionally I really don't think that the comparisons are fair. Yes, it's nice to declare a fileset and define transformations on it, rather than defining transformations and declaring which files you want to use with each one. But I could easily show you an easy-to-read Grunt configuration that is just as simple as the ones you see in Fez or Gulp marketing.
I applaud what these tools are attempting to do, but we need to keep the comparisons fair.