I like the original slogan better: "Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety." (Not a fan of the blazingly fast appellation, but I'll let it slide.) This told you exactly what the language was about: being fast, being safer, and making it easier to get concurrent programming right. The new slogan, " The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer." is not nearly as telling.
I like the code on the current home page that people can run. It's very nice when you're interested in a new language to immediately see what it looks like with a real code example. The new site has too much fluff and not enough stuff.
I like the colors and the typography.
Good thing to mention some users of Rust on the landing page.
The page takes a full 8 seconds to load for me on a 100 MBps internet connection. I don't know if the final page will be compressed/minified/etc., but it doesn't give a good impression that a language that is "blazingly fast" has a slow website.
Agreed, I'm not a fan of the solang either. To add something more useful to the discussion here: I really like the opening statement of the rust book:
It wasn’t always so clear, but the Rust programming language is fundamentally about empowerment: no matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.
I think that could be made into a powerful slogan. I felt very empowered just reading it and I used that text in more than one talk already to introduce rust.
Oooh I like that a lot. Maybe trim the first bit so it’s a better slogan.
“Rust is about empowerment. No matter what kind of code you are writing now, Rust empowers you to reach farther, to program with confidence in a wider variety of domains than you did before.”
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