I also really like Pyret's "Our language vs Mainstream Languages" (Highlights vs. Existing Languages <https://www.pyret.org/>). For Racket, the advantage is twofold: it shows how Racket is superior, and it teaches readers how to translate other languages into Racket. The disadvantage is that... it might look too aggressive.
On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 11:03:32 PM UTC-7, Sorawee Porncharoenwase wrote: > > 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 >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to racket-dev@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/c5b41719-7b34-4ee2-9d11-7ce6972d0e31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
