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       <h3 class="home-goals-title">Fast</h4>
-      <p class="home-goals-description">Delightful software runs fast. The Roc compiler should run fast, and it should be able to produce programs that run fast too. The goal here is not to make the world's fastest possible language, but we benchmark against mainstream garbage-collected languages and aim to outperform them. (Currently we succeed in some benchmarks but not others.)<a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#fast">Learn more</a></p>
+      <p class="home-goals-description">Delightful software runs fast. The Roc compiler should run fast, and it should be able to produce programs that run fast too. <a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#fast">What does <i>fast</i> mean here?</a></p>
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       <h3 class="home-goals-title">Friendly</h3>
       <h2 class="home-goals-title">Friendly</h2>
-      <p class="home-goals-description">Roc aims to be a user-friendly language with a friendly community of users. This involves the set of tools Roc ships with, how helpful those tools are, and also the spirit of the (currently small) community of Roc programmers around the world.<a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#friendly">Learn more</a></p>
+      <p class="home-goals-description">Roc aims to be a user-friendly language with a friendly community of users. This involves the set of tools Roc includes, and also the spirit of the community of Roc programmers. <a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#friendly">What does <i>friendly</i> mean here?</a></p>
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       <h3 class="home-goals-title">Functional</h3>
-      <p class="home-goals-description">Roc is a purely functional programming language. All Roc values are semantically immutable constants, and all effects are asynchronous. The language is built on a small set of simple primitives, which create helpful guarantees and make automated tests nicer to develop. <a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#functional">Learn more</a></p>
+      <p class="home-goals-description">Roc is a purely functional programming language. The language is built on a small set of simple primitives, which together give you a toolset that's more than the sum of its parts. <a class="home-goals-learn-more" href="/design_goals.html#functional">What does <i>functional</i> mean here?</a></p>
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