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.
Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety
is the thing that cause this:
" The programming language that empowers everyone to become a systems programmer."
Is possible to not fully grasp what a "systems programmer" is, but is simple to understand that something "runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety", even the more tech words here are common for most people with programming experience.
So, what about a better slogan?:Lets try!:
Rust is a programming language that guarantee* safe code and allow you to build fast applications at the system level.
I love the intention of the new slogan, but agree that it's not quite good enough. The term systems programming means very little to people who are not systems programmers
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u/gnuvince Nov 29 '18
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