[maddening]

They removed the FAQ as it didn't fit they newer site.

You can find it at the old site version: https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html

[intertextuality]

I'm confused as to why they redesigned the website but removed prior functionality.

A few weeks ago people pointed out that the internationalization also suffered due to this. Edit: by suffered, I mean "was removed entirely". I just checked and couldn't find a way to change the locale, nor could I manually set it e.g. by appending /de-DE, etc.

If the new design requires a link to the old design to access removed functionality, is it really ready to launch?

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edit; these were the languages offered: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Português, Русский, Svenska, Tiếng việt, 简体中文

Now if I want to refer to someone about Rust in Korean I have to link to prev.rust-lang.org, which is weird.

[andrepd]

It's the "redesign culture" in a nutshell. Change things (expending effort) for no discernible reason, break familiarity, arrive at subjectively worse appearance, and at objectively worse functionality. It's hair-pullingly frustrating.

[p1necone]

Holy shit the new site is awful on desktop. The font size is huge on a desktop monitor so you have to scroll a lot to see anything. (hint: what do programmers usually access the web with).

[proyb]

The site were redesign using Tachyons CSS and it seems probably not finalise yet.

https://tachyons.io

[asdkhadsj]

Does the new design require a link to the old design? By your opinion sure, but they don't think that do they?

Which is to say, if you own a site and decide to cut a feature, isn't that okay? It may or may not be a feature users want.. but that's another story entirely, no?

[krick]

I don't know what wasn't fucked up by the redesign, so I don't have such confusion. I just assume it was done to make the site intentionally less useful for the glory of satan, of course, so it seems fitting.

[Nullabillity]

Who cares about i18n? Both the language itself and all* libraries are in English anyway. You won't get far relying only on translated material.

(English is not my native language. I started out learning from Swedish resources, and generally consider that to have been a big mistake.)

[KenanSulayman]

I miss the old site :( It's so simple and beautiful..

[kekebo]

Design choices shouldn't be a reason to not include the FAQ

[steveklabnik]

Design had nothing to do with not including the FAQ.

The FAQ was often out of date, hard to maintain. It was super long. It's not clear how often it was actually used.

[xondono]

It is if you are standardizing documentation. I don’t expect FAQs in the main website.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/complement-lang-faq.html

[krick]

Your nickname perfectly fits my opinion on the newer site, BTW.

[nullwasamistake]

That... Seems bad. Sorry to jab but is optics also why they decided on confusing non-standard async syntax?

I always thought that for open source software, the more terrible the website the better it was. A site too slick may ruin Rust's reputation

[lllr_finger]

People that appreciate Rust's features can and do also appreciate a nice site - they're not mutually exclusive.

There is no such thing as "standard" async syntax unfortunately. The Rust language team is trying to find the optimal blend of ergonomics and consistency when there isn't a clear winner. It feels like pointless bike shedding to many, but a decision like how to handle strings has bifurcated the Python community for years.