[mjw1007]

As far as I can make out, the new website was considered a key part of the "Rust 2018" project, and so the maintainers chose to launch it before it was really finished (and without the planned period for user feedback), at the same time as the Rust 2018 release.

Evidently it wasn't quite such a key part of the project that they could consider delaying the new Rust edition until the website was ready.

In hindsight tying the website update to the new edition was quite possibly a mistake. The Rust core team has asked people to hold off on discussing the process or proposing major changes until they've published a retrospective on what happened (that was five months ago, and the retrospective is now "mostly finished").

[intertextuality]

Thank you for explaining it. I now finally understand why it was deployed with removed functionality.

That said, that is a completely idiotic reason to remove something like i18n. Unbelievable.

I wish I could say I don't understand how this got approved by multiple people, but the sad reality is that nobody makes internationalization a priority. It's completely normal to not have the other languages I use to not be supported, but I guess it stings to actively have it be removed.