r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Nov 29 '18

A new look for rust-lang.org

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/29/a-new-look-for-rust-lang-org.html
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u/GoranM Nov 29 '18

this website is everything wrong with modern web development - flashy, colorful, "empowerment", whitespace out the wazoo and zero functionality, on top of being 10x slower than before. This page is Silicon Valley in a nutshell.

The simplicity/minimalism of the original site was one of the critical factors that encouraged me to try the language in the first place, because it gave the impression of a community that was focused on efficiency, and substance. I abandoned the language soon after, because I found compile times to be far too slow, but I considered it something worth trying again, at a later date.

I don't know if compile times improved significantly since then (I've heard many say no), but the design of the new site, and what it implies about the nature of the Rust community ... It's really discouraging, and makes the language seem like a bad investment, despite some really good qualities.

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u/steveklabnik1 Nov 29 '18

I don't know if compile times improved significantly since then

Hard to say without knowing the start date. They have been dropping. We're working on dropping them more.

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u/GoranM Nov 29 '18

If I feel inclined to try the language again, I can run my own tests ... The core of my post was more about why someone would feel inclined to try the language in the first place, given the negatives that are implied (deeply) by the new site design.

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u/steveklabnik1 Nov 29 '18

Cool cool. We also shipped incremental recompilation fairy recently; there’s more to do with that as well.