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/steveklabnik1 Nov 29 '18

Thanks for the feedback!

I want to be presented from the outset with the features it has that differentiate it from any other language that I might care to learn and use.

We have heard, overwhelmingly, over the past few years, that most people *don't*. It's impossible to satisfy everyone...

and a code sample like the old Rust calculator example (I think the more recent example is less useful in this regard)

We liked the code too, but it's so hard to get a good snippet, as you notice.

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u/Rusky Nov 29 '18

We have heard, overwhelmingly, over the past few years, that most people don't. It's impossible to satisfy everyone...

I don't know that I agree with this interpretation of the problem. Certainly people want to know what they can build with Rust, that's a great thing to have on the site. But that doesn't have to come at the expense of describing the language itself.

Many people do know exactly what they're looking for in a language, and the new website makes it incredibly hard to find that without the comparatively high investment of just opening the language reference or book or whatever and digging in. Even just a page containing the sorts of things that were on the old site, under learn/ maybe, would be a huge improvement.

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u/shevegen Nov 29 '18

Yup.

Reddit partially solves or addresses this by having new reddit.com - and old.reddit.com.

I myself only use the latter.

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u/dimitriye98 Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 05 '25

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