The Rust site is very nice – although I do feel that it has too little content on it and feels like a landing page that you just have to click through to somewhere else from. I can see having something like the Rust page but with more content "below the fold".
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:36 PM, John Myles White <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for emulating the Rust site > > -- John > > On Dec 9, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Joey Huchette <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the [Rust website](http://www.rust-lang.org/) is pretty > fantastic, in terms of both design and content. Having the code examples > runnable and editable (via JuliaBox) would be a killer feature, though I > have no idea how feasible that is. > > On Tuesday, December 9, 2014 6:54:33 PM UTC-5, Elliot Saba wrote: >> >> Perhaps not now, but as a long-term goal, having a live, editable widget >> of code on the homepage is such an awesome draw-in, IMO. >> -E >> >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Leah Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Seeing code examples of a type and a couple of functions that use it >>> would probably give a good idea of what the code looks like. The JuMP seems >>> exciting enough to highlight both as a package and a use of macros. >>> >>> I don't know if you want to encourage different styles, but seeing >>> examples of Python like, c like, and functional-ish ways of writing Julia >>> would be a way to show off the variety of things you can do. >>> >>> --Leah >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:50 AM Elliot Saba <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> We're having intermittent DNS issues. http://julialang.org is now up >>>> for me however, and I can dig it: (I couldn't, previously) >>>> >>>> $ dig julialang.org >>>> >>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> julialang.org >>>> ;; global options: +cmd >>>> ;; Got answer: >>>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56740 >>>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4 >>>> >>>> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >>>> ;julialang.org. IN A >>>> >>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION: >>>> julialang.org. 2202 IN CNAME julialang.github.io. >>>> julialang.github.io. 2202 IN CNAME github.map.fastly.net. >>>> github.map.fastly.net. 15 IN A 199.27.79.133 >>>> ... >>>> -E >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 8:23:26 AM UTC+10, Stefan Karpinski >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> We're looking to redesign the JuliaLang.org home page and try to >>>>>> give it a little more focus than it currently has. Which raises the >>>>>> question of what to focus on. We could certainly have better code >>>>>> examples >>>>>> and maybe highlight features of the language and its ecosystem better. >>>>>> What >>>>>> do people think we should include? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The whole site seems to be offline? Is that because of this? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >
