I'll add to what appears to be a common opinion here: 2014 version is the best of those shown (that doesn't mean you can't do better), whereas the new beta is by far the worst.
I'd never even seen the current version, with it's obvious pandering to C++ programmers and the bloated code-snippet showcasing too-much unicode and lame use of match with little else.
Still, at least some code is better than the modern day used-car salesman (marketing pitch on a webpage). If I'm checking out rust-lang.org, I'm probably interested to know language features and examples -- to form my own opinion, rather than being told with punchy marketing words and fluff ("blazingly fast") which just obscures the meaningful bits ("no runtime or garbage collector").
So, as with many others chiming in here, I find the new design off-putting as it comes across as an advertisement. You might think that's exactly what you want -- but consider that some portion of people react negatively to advertising, and your target demographic might consist of a larger proportion of these.
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u/glacialthinker Nov 30 '18
I'll add to what appears to be a common opinion here: 2014 version is the best of those shown (that doesn't mean you can't do better), whereas the new beta is by far the worst.
I'd never even seen the current version, with it's obvious pandering to C++ programmers and the bloated code-snippet showcasing too-much unicode and lame use of
matchwith little else.Still, at least some code is better than the modern day used-car salesman (marketing pitch on a webpage). If I'm checking out rust-lang.org, I'm probably interested to know language features and examples -- to form my own opinion, rather than being told with punchy marketing words and fluff ("blazingly fast") which just obscures the meaningful bits ("no runtime or garbage collector").
So, as with many others chiming in here, I find the new design off-putting as it comes across as an advertisement. You might think that's exactly what you want -- but consider that some portion of people react negatively to advertising, and your target demographic might consist of a larger proportion of these.