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Cherokee vs Compass: What are the differences?

Cherokee: High-performance web server. Cherokee is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock solid stability. Among its many features there is one that deserves special credit: a user friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server; Compass: A Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain. The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.

Cherokee and Compass are primarily classified as "Web Servers" and "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools respectively.

"The logo is cute" is the primary reason why developers consider Cherokee over the competitors, whereas "No vendor prefix CSS pain" was stated as the key factor in picking Compass.

Compass is an open source tool with 6.91K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Compass's open source repository on GitHub.

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    The logo is cute
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    No vendor prefix CSS pain
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    Mixins
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    Variables
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    Compass sprites

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What is Cherokee?

Cherokee is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock solid stability. Among its many features there is one that deserves special credit: a user friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server.

What is Compass?

The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.

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