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Without clearly communicating what Rust is, it's confusing and not useful to a person who might be first visiting the website without prior knowledge.\r\n\r\n## Drawbacks\r\nNone that I can see. I have yet to visit a PL website that doesn't have \"programming language\" on the landing page."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/issues/comments/446974899","html_url":"https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/issues/612#issuecomment-446974899","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/issues/612","id":446974899,"node_id":"MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ0Njk3NDg5OQ==","user":{"login":"aidanhs","id":1050652,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjEwNTA2NTI=","avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1050652?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs","html_url":"https://github.com/aidanhs","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/aidanhs/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-12-13T13:50:32Z","updated_at":"2018-12-13T13:50:32Z","author_association":"MEMBER","body":"Putting myself in the shoes of a non-technical person (often decisionmakers for using Rust) who may have heard about Rust from their team, I could see it taking little while for it to sink in that it's a programming language. I can sympathise with this suggestion."}}
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