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Feature request: A documentation search bar right at the top on the homepage. As an existing user, that's usually the first thing I want to see. After that, a l
by piinbinary 8y ago
Feature request: A documentation search bar right at the top on the homepage. As an existing user, that's usually the first thing I want to see. After that, a link to browse the documentation. Then a link to install it.
When looking at the home page, I don't know what "Get started" is going to take me to, but experience with other sites has given me a bad taste with "Get started" buttons. (The content it leads to here is good, though much of it would have been better put on the front page.)
Personally, I think trying to sell the language on the homepage is the wrong goal. I like language examples on the homepage to make a snap judgement about a language. If I can't see an example, I'm going to assume that there is a reason you don't want me to see it.
If I'm unfamiliar with the language, the things I want are:
* A code example
* A listing of properties of the language (e.g. statically typed, compiled, no gc, memory managed at compile time, etc)
* A command to install it
* A link to a tutorial where I can quickly try out the basics
* A link to the documentation so I can get a sense of its quality
* A link to the github page
- steveklabnik 8y agoPart of the issue with that is that our documentation search isn’t unified. It’s gonna take a lot of work for that to happen.