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There's no performance impact. Styles are precompiled locally before deployment.

There is, at runtime browser needs to do extra matching.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13829959/nested-selector...

It's about Less but the same rule applies to CSS and Sass.

Note the date on that. It’s my understanding that with modern browsers, except in pathological cases, selector performance is pretty much a non issue.

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