Millennials are Killing Common Lisp.
one page, https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/
The Rust page, on the other hand, only effectively demonstrates one feature, which i don't care about. Unicode strings? Woo. Those belong in separate i18n file. It does so in a box that doesn't even properly display the whole snippet without scrolling. It is cool that I'm able to run it, though of course a newbie like me wouldn't know what to do. Its list of features should be links to examples. As is, the bullet points could have been extracted from a powerpoint presentation and are just as mind-numbing.
[1] though I want a link to more information, for example which servers they chose for Ruby and Node. Were those best-in-class for their language? I'm very suspicious of benchmarks given with little context.
I suspect preconceptions of the language going into the page make a big difference.
Which is not to criticize the Rust page. It is also nice, just different.
I will offer that proclaiming that Millenials are Killing Common Lisp is probably more effective at alienating potential users than a redesigned home page. :(
The stuff above the language description should be shoved to the bottom (excluding obviously the top menu) and it would be perfect. I miss their old site because it was obvious and to the point and had examples right away.
Oh, apparently I'm supposed to hover over the images to see more text. Why?!
I didn't get RSI scrolling through expansive material space.