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There must be something wrong with my brain in that the design of the page and the framework make me finally want to really give node.js a try. I find this hap

• mhd 16y ago
  For web stuff, certainly. If you're doing e.g. a web framework and don't have a good page, my interest starts to wane. It's either github/bitbucket/etc. or a visually pleasing home page. For C libraries and similar low-level stuff? Don't really care about the layout, as long as it isn't red text on a blue background or looks like a geocities page. Ceterum censeo: Presentations with Comic Sans don't sell anything. I'm looking at you, Mr. Cardelli.
• elliottcable 16y ago
  This is absolutely fine: a creator who has no ‘style’ will not only fail to care enough to create a quality landing page for their creations, but it’s quite likely that the creation itself will have no style as well. That means, for you… difficult-to-use APIs, obtuse / nonexistent documentation, a lack of quality (if any) support… the list goes on; and worst of all, it will likely attract a user community of the same type of people, leaving you with an extensions/libraries/modules ecosystem with exactly the same problems in abundance. The spices, my friend, are what matters. (Also, I personally see a very close correlation between when the current, beautiful, website was contributed to Ryah’s work, and when it took off and gained massive “popularity.” Coincidence? No.)
  • elliottcable 16y ago
    Oh, and on that same topic; as a personal friend of the creator of this library, I can very very much vouch for his sense of style. ;D
  • cloudhead 16y ago
    Well put, mister!
• alnayyir 16y ago
  It shows attention to detail, the kind of mind that you'd want tending to the software running your backend. Not by any means a bad thing.