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> I clicked on it and was taken to a page which looked like it was stuck in a 1990s timewarp. Opened it on my phone and, as expected, no concessions to mobile l
by oefrha 5y ago
> I clicked on it and was taken to a page which looked like it was stuck in a 1990s timewarp. Opened it on my phone and, as expected, no concessions to mobile layout at all. Just that massive page of text rendered in microscopic size on my phone screen.
Sure, maybe check https://cppreference.com/ https://cppreference.com/ on your phone too. C++ is a popular language and has modern updates all the time, as you can see on that very site, yet the top reference site has a non-responsive design arguably "stuck in 1990s".
Judging an old and mature project by whether its website design is updated to 2020s is shallow.
- Jetrel 5y agoTo be fair; the real comparisons they're making are to things like Ruby, Rust, Python, etc. These are all languages that have done extraordinary jobs at evangelism and at setting up communities that are structured to have friendly, non-adversarial cultures. It's not an accident that these languages have become obscenely popular. The "design" in terms of how it looks is, as you say, irrelevant. The "design" in terms of what information is conveyed, is deeply flawed in the sense that it's excellent for anyone who's already using the compiler - and completely useless for someone swinging by wondering about getting into Pascal in 2021. I.e. "preaching to the choir", as they say. A fair amount of why websites started to also look different over time, is they structurally altered themselves to convey additional information. For example, a lot of programming language/compiler sites have images at the top now giving "strangers" a quick glimpse at the syntax. It's all about crafting your website so it's useful to complete strangers, rather than only useful to the existing in-crowd.