[cocktailpeanuts]

I don't want to be that guy, but I think the design needs work. Especially since the title is saying "has a new design". I wonder what it used to look like. It looks like a nice piece of technology, but like the other guy said, the website is too busy and I don't know where to look at. It took me a minute to find the github link. It's almost like it's hidden purposely.

Also the "Books" section is kind of misleading and made me think they're taking credit for something that they didn't do. After taking a look at the page for a while finally realized it's like scheme/lisp, and the books section kind of makes sense, but still it's still very confusing.

This may be too harsh but the design almost reminds me of those parking websites that make money off of adsense. Hope they put some more effort into the design so the website can actually do the language more justice.

[bshimmin]

I don't think it's as bad as a domain parking web site, but there are some serious problems with it.

- The line drawings make it look like this is a charting library. Perhaps they have some mysterious symbolism, but to me it looks like the brief here was "differentiate these six main headings with... something". The "something" they ended up with is pretty devoid of value.

- Obviously, as others have said, the tagline does little to explain what Racket is. (cf. Rust's web site, which does a great job with this, even though it's incredibly minimal and has almost no design.)

- The code samples are low-contrast until clicked, and not really all that engaging even when clicked.

- The various links in the page go to all kinds of different sites, some under racket-lang.org and many not. The ones that are under racket-lang.org (with the exception of the blog) look absolutely nothing like racket-lang.org itself, and even have a different logo!

[Teichopsia]

I'm looking at it from a 4" phone, so it might 'look busy' from a bigger device? I don't know.

This design IS a huge improvement from what they used to have. Giving short code snippets along with explanations and links with proper organization (remember, I'm looking at it on a phone) per category. But most importantly, it loaded fast and everything I looked at worked. Something that doesn't happen with a lot of 'better' designed websites featured on HN.

[zitterbewegung]

I think that if they took the fancy graphics and swapped it with what you see when you hover over and maybe put some code snippets above the fold it would solve some of those problems.

[edem]

You __are__ that guy. The design is cool and this is the best looking lisp site IMHO.

[eternalban]

I like it & it certainly better than their previous effort, but the point regarding "charting library" is valid, imo. If I didn't know what Racket was, that would be my immediate impression as well.

[nilved]

Not that this design is bad, I think Guile's site is fantastic. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

[oblio]

Wow! It truly is. I wanted to make a snarky comment about ivory tower Lisps but the Guile site is awesome: down to Earth, practical and relatable.