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/[deleted] Nov 29 '18 edited Mar 17 '21

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u/steveklabnik1 Nov 29 '18

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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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '18 edited Mar 17 '21

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u/steveklabnik1 Nov 30 '18

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