[Ur] New website?

[Sergey Mironov]

Ml, Orchidaceae. Please don't mix questions of style and priority. It
is really different things. In theory, we may improve error messages
and switch to the new site simultaneously. Nice-looking site doesn't
make compiler worse.

2015-07-29 17:09 GMT+03:00 Orchidaceae Phalaenopsis <orchid.hybrid at gmail.com>:
> I whole heartedly agree with ml at extensibl.com
>
> Improving error messages in the compiler and producing learning
> resources would help users much more.
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:16 AM,  <ml at extensibl.com> wrote:
>> The current website is awesome - simple, functional and just works
>> on most (all?) devices - there is no good reason to replace it with anything.
>>
>> My opinion is that time and efforts should be spent on the actual language, framework and tools,
>> rather than distractions like this.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:32:18PM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
>>> Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on the project web site. Here's my
>>> summary of the 5-ish opinions expressed:
>>> - It's not clear that the large background graphic from Torstein's design is
>>> the way to go.  Somehow it may be out of keeping with the "character" of the
>>> Ur/Web project.
>>> - Adding a live-coding demo section seems like a no-brainer.  I started a
>>> separate discussion thread looking for someone to spearhead an
>>> implementation.
>>> - Moving to Git & GitHub also seems like a no-brainer.  One concern about
>>> GitHub was expressed, regarding censorship.  I personally am not too worried
>>> there, as it's easy to maintain "mirrors" of a Git repository all over the
>>> place, to be ready in case one main provider goes over to the dark side.
>>> The pros seem to outweigh the cons, considering how many potential
>>> contributors already have GitHub accounts and are used to using GitHub.
>>> - It may still be worth tweaking the graphical design of the Ur project
>>> site, but I'm not seeing a clear consensus right now on exactly how that
>>> should look.  (I really don't mind the current site. :P)
>>>
>>> Another very useful thing would be a tutorial that doesn't assume ML and
>>> Haskell familiarity, ideally written by someone beside me, since Ur/Web's
>>> design has been in some sense optimized for my brain. :) Any takers there?
>>>
>>> On 07/27/2015 08:30 PM, Stefan Scott Alexander wrote:
>>> >Also, "eating your own dog food" would probably be a plus. It only makes
>>> >sense that a website for a web programming language should be programmed
>>> >in the language itself.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about this one.  Ur/Web is for web _apps_, not web _sites_, so
>>> it may be a mismatch for a largely static site.
>>>
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