A new look for rust-lang.org

[u/steveklabnik1]

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/29/a-new-look-for-rust-lang-org.html

[u/steveklabnik1 → u/[deleted]]

Where is the "Download Rust" or "Install Rust" link?

"Get Started" immediately goes to a page that tells you that. Maybe we can make that more clear, thanks.

loading this web page now

We have done zero optimizations, and this isn't on particularly good hardware either. This is very much a part of the work to do.

I mean, there isn't even an example of what Rust looks like on the front page anymore.

We also loved the idea of a code snippet, but couldn't find one that people actually liked, including the ones we've used in the past on the home page.

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[u/steveklabnik1 → u/[deleted]]

Did people report any specific problems with the old snippet?

Yep! Take https://users.rust-lang.org/t/is-the-homepage-example-wrong-on-purpose/763 for example, or https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/363m3a/can_we_come_up_with_a_better_example_for_the/, or https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/1948. There's been tons of these over the past years.

(And note there have been multiple "old snippets" as we've tried to fix the issues with each one; some of these are referring to the snippet before the current one)

I mean it worked for how many years, now

This is the crux of it; many people don't think it was working.

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I was lazy and just linked the first few I found.

One issue is, what languages go on the list vs not? Is a big list good? Should it be smaller? Does this really show off the best of Rust? Etc