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The point of the old website was convincing developers to use Rust. It seems the point of the new one is convincing the higher ups to let their developers use R

• speedplane 8y ago
  I have been using Google Cloud for many years now. I used it because I thought it was technically superior than AWS and several others. However, for years, many mocked it as a second-tier cloud provider that wasn't "serious". Then Google brought on Diane Green. As a technical nerd, I wasn't too pleased. Their nerdy How-To articles morphed into Enterprise Success Stories. It was irritating, but it also raised Google-Cloud to a "serious" cloud provider. Even though Rust's marketing pivot will likely irritate many, it's likely better for it long term.
  • ttsda 8y ago
    Agreed. As much as I liked the old site I think the rust team made the right call on this one. Perhaps the old page could be moved somewhere close to the language docs instead of being removed, but I'm confident whoever is in charge has given this much more thought than I could ever give (as well as most of the commenters here).
    • speedplane 8y ago
      Interestingly, Diane Green just left Google Cloud, under somewhat unclear circumstances. It's possible that she did her job, "mission accomplished", it's possible that she did not do it well enough to attract big enterprise clients, but the most satisfying reason (albeit least likely), is that the Google decided to focus back on the technology and less on enticing Enterprise clients with laminated corporate-speak marketing. So even though this is probably the right move for Rust, it would behoove them to keep a section of their site/blog/newslettter/slack channel/etc for the nerds to get together working on what they love.