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vʌvr (formerly called Javaslang) is a non-commercial, non-profit object-functional library that runs with Java 8+. It aims to reduce the lines of code and increase code quality.
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[public visibility] Make our GitHub homepage a better appetizer #1648

Open l0rinc opened 7 years ago

l0rinc commented 7 years ago

The current https://github.com/javaslang/javaslang homepage is quite dry, newcomers won't be sold instantly by the idea - every link clicked halves the audience.

The best examples from the tests and http://www.javaslang.io/javaslang-docs should be included in the home page (also see https://github.com/functionaljava/functionaljava and https://github.com/slamdata/matryoshka for good examples) in a short but concise manner (maybe even comparing it to Java and stating it publicly that we're following Scala) ... maybe even include some benchmarks and everything that would address the concerns of most people.

Also, the project's description needs to be compacted as well (i.e. object-oriented programming with the elegance and ro… http://javaslang.io)

danieldietrich commented 7 years ago

I thought the same several times. We will give the page a fresh look and release it together with 2.1.0. I will make it available under a different url before in order to get some feedback.

pivovarit commented 7 years ago

@danieldietrich keep in mind that if you need some consultations about the graphical side of things, Filip will be there to help :)

danieldietrich commented 7 years ago

@pivovarit thank you, I will contact him!

danieldietrich commented 7 years ago

See also #1163