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I agree with your point here, though imo it's worth drawing a distinction between the FP concepts the language designers / implementors must understand and the FP concepts the language users must understand.

Ideally languages prevent bug classes like null deref, use after free while still being familiar enough for most programmers to use.

It's analogous to the spectrum of SQL knowledge folks have. For instance knowing what a group by does vs how a group by reshuffles data on a single node / across nodes. Ideally the language design hides the hard details.

A very tall order admittedly.

List of ideas:

* I'd agree that first and foremost, I'd change the line width. I've always found the blog a bit difficult to read on the site because of the number of words per line. The site seems to be responsive - maybe just change the width of the articles?

* It might be worth having the landing page have something other than "featured articles" right at the top. Since the content of your site is so diverse, it might help to have some pointers as to how to navigate the site up front.

* On the navigation sidebar, maybe have a "New Here?" or a "Getting Started" link.

Just some ideas. I've been reading your blog for many years, btw. It even inspired me to start my own!

Despite the whole situation being rather embarrassing, it seems like they're handling this quite well. Whitehat to the rescue!