Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't sassc require the user to compile it?

You have to compile it, just like this poster has to compile their go code. There are usually packages and formulas for it in most std repos.

You're right, on OSX you can brew install sassc

there's a Debian package :) thanks for the tip :)

just got this working with fswatch and sassc, thought I'd feed back that this is perfect, thanks :)

Heh, I just woke up and read this and thought “well thats enough problem solving for today” :) Glad we could help you avoid the hell that is adding npm to a non-node project!

Another thank you from here! I've had to use node just for sass in the past and this is a much nicer solution.