A new look for rust-lang.org • Hacker News Board

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by alain_gilbert » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:42 PM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #10

In my (useless) opinion, the old website looks more modern and approachable. I can see immediately what are the benefits of Rust, as well as a code sample. The new site only offers a vague tagline ("The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer."), which doesn't explain much.

I share the same (useless) opinion.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by jszymborski » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:44 PM UTC

ipsum2 wrote: post #10

In my (useless) opinion, the old website looks more modern and approachable. I can see immediately what are the benefits of Rust, as well as a code sample. The new site only offers a vague tagline ("The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer."), which doesn't explain much.

The lack of code on the landing or "learn" page is not great in my similarly useless opinion.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by alexandernst » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:45 PM UTC

I guess that's the result when a Rust developer does the job of a Web dev.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by nixpulvis » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

I don't hate it, but I do miss the similarity the old site had to the rest of the ecosystems documentation. I'm glad to see more information added though.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by tphan » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

Tabbing through the page is kinda annoying because they've set outline: 0 on all the buttons.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by unethical_ban » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC

I'm not a huge fan, but it's not bad. Some Rust sponsors have their big logos on there, and the Rust Book (the real documentation) is at the very bottom of the page.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by revskill » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

alexandernst wrote: post #13

I guess that's the result when a Rust developer does the job of a Web dev.

Is it a compliment ?

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:55 PM UTC

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Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 10:59 PM UTC

This website seems like they are targeting CEO and CTO's. The website looks very much like a business website trying to get corporations to sign up. The old website felt it was targeting programmers with it's code sample that you could modify and run directly on the web page.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by gpm » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:05 PM UTC

Generally LGTM.

I loved the playground editor embedded in the old front page. Any chance it can be added to this one as well?