tweaks

Author: swannodette

content/news/2025-11-24-release.adoc

@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ While ClojureScript enables writing ambitious programs for JavaScript targets, n
 
 ClojureScript always produced a reasonably small artifact, usually starting at 20K compressed. And thanks to Google Closure Compiler tree-shaking, you could leverage powerful functionality from Google Closure Library and expect the size of your final artifact to increase slowly.
 
-Still the hard 20K compressed wall remained. After some time in the hammock, we decided to travel all the way back to 2011 and bring back the original data structures that Rich Hickey and Think Relevance included in the standard library.  While not as efficient, they are decoupled and involve less code. By tweaking the ClojureScript compiler to emit calls to the older constructors instead under a new `:lite-mode` flag, tree-shaking can eliminate the now unused fancier data structures.
+Still the hard 20K compressed wall remained. After some time in the hammock, we decided to travel all the way back to 2011 and bring back the original data structures that Rich Hickey and Think Relevance included in the standard library.  While not as efficient, they are decoupled and involve less code. By tweaking the ClojureScript compiler to emit calls to the older constructors instead under a new `:lite-mode` flag, tree-shaking can eliminate the persistent implementations.
 
-The other code size issue in ClojureScript programs is printing. While necessary to deliver the LISP experience at the REPL, for less ambitious artifacts the machinery is just dead weight. `:elide-to-string` removes the `toString` implementations for the ClojureScript collections.
+The other code size issue in ClojureScript programs is printing. While required to deliver the LISP experience at the REPL, for less ambitious artifacts the machinery is just dead weight. `:elide-to-string` removes the `toString` implementations for collections types improving tree-shaking.
 
-Combining these two new experimental flags cuts the starting artifact size by a third. However, it's important to understand these flags cannot be used to make *large* ClojureScript programs smaller - once you have enough dependencies or rely on enough features, the savings provided by `:lite-mode` are a wash.
+Combining these two new experimental flags cuts the starting artifact size by two thirds. However, it's important to understand these flags cannot be used to make *large* ClojureScript programs smaller - once you have enough dependencies or rely on enough features, the savings provided by `:lite-mode` are a wash.
 
-Bu for people who know that they want to build something very compact, yet not give up on the bits of `cljs.core` and Google Closure Library that they need, these two new flags offer great value.
+But for people who know that they want to build something very compact, yet not give up on the bits of `cljs.core` and Google Closure Library that they need, these two new flags offer great value.
 
 The following program is 6K Brotli compressed with `:lite-mode` + `:elide-to-string`
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