Re: Updating Boost overview text

On 5 May 2026 15:36, Mark Cooper via Boost wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We're updating the overview description of Boost. Please review the
> following and provide any feedback. Thanks.
> 
> __________
> 
> Boost is a collection of free, peer-reviewed, portable C++ source libraries
> maintained by an open community of world-class engineers. For more than a
> quarter century, Boost has set the standard for C++ library engineering.
> Delivering capabilities the standard does not, from high performance
> containers and networking to numerical computing and coroutines. Smart
> pointers, filesystem, regex, variant: they became part of modern C++
> because Boost built them first and proved they belonged there.
> 
> The world's most demanding organizations have validated this work.
> Aerospace, defense, high frequency trading systems, video games, large
> scale database engines. When the stakes are highest, Boost is in the stack.
> And through the Boost Software License, every line of it is freely
> available for commercial and open source use alike, with no obligation to
> release your code.
> 
> Great engineering compounds. Boost is where the next generation of C++
> takes shape.

I feel this text is more of a marketing speech rather than a technical
overview. I don't know if that is intended, and I can't tell if this is
an improvement since it's not clear what is the original text this is
supposed to replace.

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