Less was created in 2009 by Alexis Sellier, more commonly known as @cloudhead. Originally written in Ruby, it was then ported to JavaScript.

In May 2012 Alexis relinquished control and development over to a core team of contributors who now manage, fix and extend the language.

Less is maintained by a group of invaluable core contributors, with the massive support and involvement of our community. No one person is in charge and everyone has their own areas and donates the time they can afford. In alphabetical order:

Alexis Sellier Original Author, Language Design @cloudhead

Jon Schlinkert Language Design, Documentation, Community @jonschlinkert

Luke Page Development, Language Design, Documentation, Releasing @lukeapage

Marcus Bointon Color Functions @Synchro

Mária Jurčovičová Language Design, Java Port @sommeri

Matthew Dean Language Design, Community @matthew-dean

Max Mikhailov Development, Documentation, Language Design @seven-phases-max

Get involved with Less.js development by opening an issue or submitting a pull request (if it's a feature request, please open an issue first).

Read our contributing guidelines and the developing section of our usage page.

Stay up to date on the development of Less.js and reach out to the community with these helpful resources.

• Have a feature request or bug report? Let us know on our GitHub Issues.

Less has been ported to several other programming languages.

Java

• Lesscss (Runs less.js using Rhino, Nasshorn or node.js engine; 1.7.0 compliant)
• Lesscss gradle plugin (Gradle plugin based on Lesscss)
• Less Engine (Runs less.js in the Rhino JVM-based JavaScript interpreter)
• Less CSS Compiler for Java (Runs less.js in the Rhino JVM-based JavaScript interpreter)
• Less4j (Native Java implementation.)

.Net

• Less CSS for .Net

PHP

• lessphp
• BW Less CSS (WordPress Plugin)
• less.php

Python

• Python Less Compiler

Ruby

• Less.js In Ruby's V8 Engine

Know of another port that should be added to this list? Please let us know.

Community members have translated Less.js's documentation into various languages.

• Belarusian: http://www.designcontest.com/show/lesscss-be
• Chinese: http://lesscss.net
• Danish: http://lesscss.dk
• French: http://luckymarmot.com/lesscss
• German: http://www.lesscss.de
• Indonesian: http://bertzzie.com/post/7/dokumentasi-less-bahasa-indonesia
• Iranian: http://less-css.ir
• Japanese: http://less-ja.studiomohawk.com/
• Polish: http://ciembor.github.com/lesscss.org/
• Portuguese: http://giovanneafonso.github.io/lesscss.org/
• Russian: http://lesscss.ru
• Spanish: http://amatellanes.github.io/lesscss.org/
• Ukrainian: http://komaval.github.com/lesscss.org/
• Vietnamese: http://less.eten.vn/
• 中文 (Chinese): http://less.bootcss.com

Have another language to add, or perhaps a different or better translation? Let us know by opening an issue.