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I don't know why people still do this... you'd think it'd be obvious while they were making the language's main page. "Oh, this is a new language, maybe I shoul
by spydez 18y ago
I don't know why people still do this... you'd think it'd be obvious while they were making the language's main page. "Oh, this is a new language, maybe I should show people what it looks like."
In my opinion, the very first thing on any language's main page should be a hello world. The very second thing should be links to other simple examples.
- davidw 18y agoThat bugged me too. For my own language, I put the link in the second paragraph here: http://www.hecl.org http://www.hecl.org because, as I wrote "I personally can't stand web pages for new programming languages without a quick link to some examples."
- Shooter 18y agoMost programmers SUCK at marketing. Too many projects waste valuable front page space with minutiae before they even tell you what the hell the project is or why you should care. Programming project sites are usually more focused on people with commit privileges than they are on recruiting new users. Which is probably a big reason why so many projects never gain any momentum beyond the founding members. One of my personal pet peeves: Why do so many open-source projects make you search everywhere (or even download code) in order to find out what freaking language they use for the project? With most programmers only knowing/using a few languages, it seems that this would be a prominent bit of information to impart on the front page, yeah? I shouldn't have to download code to learn that the project is written in Intercal or C#, ferchrissakes! "This project is written in XXXXX" is more helpful to me than knowing the last few esoteric bugs that were fixed. I cringe every time I see the most valuable real estate on a programming project site used to show the revision history.