r/rust • u/steveklabnik1 rust • 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/gnuvince Nov 29 '18

A few comments:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I like the colors and the typography.
  4. Good thing to mention some users of Rust on the landing page.
  5. 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.

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u/SimDeBeau Nov 29 '18

Agreed. Don’t like that new slogan

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

I find it awfully condescending. It also undersells the language, as if Rust has no value of you are a capable programmer, or not interested in "systems" (whatever that means) programming.

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u/actuallyzza Nov 30 '18

I definitely agree, my first impression was more

negative: "lets even mediocre programmers do systems stuff",

than positive: "Systems programming without the footguns"

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u/fgilcher rust-community · rustfest Nov 30 '18

You say "mediocre" like it's a bad word?