Great excerpt from the Realm of Racket (currently available in the Humble Bundle!) on how OO PLs lead to Scheme.
This quote is from page 27.
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When a project is 90%+ open source, it's hard to sell a proprietary bundle on top. OpenOffice/Star Office had this problem: Star Office had a grammar checker as its main selling point IIRC.
This is a problem when the bundle funds much of the development work.
Finally migrated my 2014-era web application off an old server.
When I set it up, I tried to take good notes. These days I expect a bundle I can deploy with command -- a list of required packages is distro-specific, labour intensive, and bitrots!
Purgecss is a really cool tool for removing unused CSS based on an analysis of your HTML. For example, unused classes.
https://www.purgecss.com/
This gives CSS libraries much more scope to add features without hurting bundle size!


