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Neat! A nitpick: I haven't used Haskell, so I'm trying to read the prime sieve example in the corner, but there's very little contrast between the background and the nonalphanumeric characters. Some brighter syntax highlighting would be a better choice against that dark background.
Such a toy-example just contributes to the wrong belief that Haskell is just useful in academics or teaching. Some time ago I did implement the sieve in several languages and I also considered Haskell but set for an unpure approach (IOUArray) and it was extremely fast (getting close to C/C++ and outperforming Go, Java, etc.). Obviously such an example is not good to present Haskell's novel ideas but this toy example is worse then no example.
edit: Sorry, did not want to appear nit-picky, I like the language and the new design.
Please note this homepage is NOT final and it's going to see revisions before we push it out to the actual website, including many tweaks to the content and probably some styling tweaks too. There are a lot of other things we still need to do as well, like ensure all redirects and subpages work properly. Source: I'm one of the Haskell.org administrators, and we pushed this out only today.
Is there a practical reason why there's so much empty space with this new design, and why so little valuable content and functionality is visible by default? Viewing the existing site in a desktop browser, I get to see the description of Haskell, and a bunch of useful links about learning it, downloading an implementation, using it, and participating in the community. Recent news items and upcoming events are also vi…
Please note this homepage is NOT final and it's going to see revisions before we push it out to the actual website, including many tweaks to the content and probably some styling tweaks too. There are a lot of other things we still need to do as well, like ensure all redirects and subpages work properly. Source: I'm one of the Haskell.org administrators, and we pushed this out only today.
Would you need some help in curating a better set of videos? I think that having some topics this advanced on the home page might scare of users, especially given their visual priority on the page.
Also, what's the plan on the view examples links on the page? Currently these don't link anywhere. Are you looking for existing articles that exist online to link to, or are you looking to have some content written that can be hosted on haskell.org.
I think CIS 194 would be nice to be added in the book listing section? It's a great course with exercises and at the same time refer to chapters of both LYAH and RWH.
Awesome new look! I sort of have a thing for commas: An advanced purely-functional programming language An advanced, purely-functional programming language Much better, no?
Not sure how that first adjective applies.
It bugs me a bit that the example code is brute force trial division instead of a true prime sieve. Sure, it highlights lazyness but the algorithm is less efficient. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
Neat! A nitpick: I haven't used Haskell, so I'm trying to read the prime sieve example in the corner, but there's very little contrast between the background and the nonalphanumeric characters. Some brighter syntax highlighting would be a better choice against that dark background.
Also maybe pick a simpler example and not play into the stereotype that Haskell is for people who think they are smarter than everyone else.
Finding primes is something that is taught in the first programming class in Indian high schools. I guess I've never thought of it as something hard.
I looked at nodejs.org, and their first example is a web server! Python has the Fibonacci as it's second example (the first one show's numeric operations).
Ruby does simple string operations on it's home page. While I think that is indeed simpler, it's a little nuanced in Haskell. Depending on how you're doing it you'll need to Map toUpper from Data.Char or use toUpper from Data.Text, and I don't think it's a good first impression have something that uses Data.Text, and the OverloadedStrings extension.
PS - Although, I do agree with some other commentors here that this code isn't actually the Sieve of Eratosthenes, and is far more inefficient, and that is a valid reason to replace that example.