I gave a feedback for the the current homepage
at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/6ePaiAnqMtk/_qgGMmi4GQAJ. A
lot of them still apply to the new one. In particular:
1. Most people probably don't know what "batteries included" means (yes,
even Python programmers).
2. Under "Racket, the Language-Oriented Programming Language", showing the
code alone is not going to make audiences appreciate Racket because they
probably don't know how to read it. If we want to make them "wow!" for how
concise Racket code is to produce the output, *we need to show the output
as well*.
3. It would be cool if the typed Racket example contains a type error, and
we show how typed Racket catches the error.
4. It would be nice if the Scribble example is mainly proses. Otherwise,
users could (for example) assume that this is yet another Racket program
will a nice string literal syntax.
Here're additional comments:
1. For "Little Macros", can we have a different example? It takes me more
than a minute to figure out what's going on in that example, even though I
think I know macros and Racket syntax at some level. People who are new to
Racket are going to just skip that example with confusion.
2. For "General Purpose", again, users want to see an output. A GUI window
(like the "Big Macros" example) would suffice.
3. Can we make the headers ("Racket, the Language-Oriented Programming
Language", "Racket, the Ecosystem") change color on hovering to indicate
that it can be clicked?
On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 10:10:16 PM UTC-7, matt...@ccs.neu.edu wrote:
>
>
> Over the past few weeks, the Racket core team has re-designed the web
> site with the goal of expressing the Racket ideas verbally on the front
> page. The current design is hosted at
> =
>
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/test.racket-lang.org/www/index.html
>
> Comments welcome on all aspects. — Matthias
>
>
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