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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.
Wait, let's throw all that away and develop a vomit-inducing monstrosity, complete with: in-your-face extra-bold title headers, jarring colours and colour changes, overall very large design suitable for tablets and not desktops (which is after all where most of your target audience should be accessing from)... What a complete cock-up. The web design equivalent of painting flames on your car: an immature attempt to look "cool" that turns the thing into an horrendous mess.
I can only sincerely ask why why why.
In general I like the approach of the beta website, though I prefer the very simple visual style of the current one. The one main objection is the new slogan. > Rust: The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer. They claim it better conveys "what you can do with Rust", but in my opinion being a systems programmer is not more descriptive than the previous statement and it can be read…
Also, systems programming is about so much more than being good a programming in a particular language. Programming in rust doesn't make you understand memory barriers.
I'm not a fan of the new website, but it's possible that the intent was to be "with Rust, you don't have to".
New one looks like some shady marketing crap put together with off-the-shelf components like bootstrap libs. But it does 'empowers everyone'. May be they can add 'No programer left behind' and we all be happy.
A personal opinion: The old site said to me "Here's a programming language made by programmers for programmers.". The new site says to me "Here's a programming language which has a marketing team.". The "Featuring" bullet list was an excellent way of calling out what makes Rust distinctive, and I felt I could trust what it said to be basically true. But claims like "empowers everyone to become a systems programmer" o…
I'm disappointed that the Rust community is moving from open IRC to proprietary Discord. Sure, people think IRC is archaic, but for them, the Discourse-based forum is plenty modern, isn't it? The fact that Discord is proprietary means that people aren't free to use any alternative client they want. This is especially problematic for people who aren't well served by the official client, e.g. blind people.
We love open source, but it’s one of many options to weigh. They’re also a production user of Rust, which is a pro. It’s not that there are no cons, of course... there’s just really no perfect option in this space.
They have a clean, effective website. It has a pleasing look, and mostly it's just what a webpage should be, after all: a document. Text, images, an interactive code editor. Some CSS to make it look pleasing and readable. A navbar at the top. It works, it is pleasing to the eye, it communicates what it what it is meant to communicate and links to 4 important sections of the website. Wait, let's throw all that away an…
Feature request: A documentation search bar right at the top on the homepage. As an existing user, that's usually the first thing I want to see. After that, a link to browse the documentation. Then a link to install it. When looking at the home page, I don't know what "Get started" is going to take me to, but experience with other sites has given me a bad taste with "Get started" buttons. (The content it leads to her…
I'm CEO of WSO2 and we are working on a programming language for writing microservices called 'Ballerina', and we host it's community at http://ballerina.io . Prior to the first public launch, I pulled 9 of our core community members into an offsite where we developed and implemented the web site. It was a challenging exercise and so can relate to Rust's community efforts to the redesign. I wanted to offer some persp…