Re: Updating Boost overview text

The text is marketing focused, not technical.

Here is what it would be replacing:

Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. Experience
C++ libraries created by experts to be reliable, skillfully designed, and
well-tested. Development of high quality, expert reviewed, legally
unencumbered, open-source libraries, inspiring standard enhancements, and
advancing and disseminating software development best practices.It does
this by fostering community engagement, nurturing leaders, providing
necessary financial/legal support, and making directional decisions in the
event of Boost community deadlock. Equally important to our mission is the
guidance provided by our shared values. These are transparency,
inclusivity, consensus-building, federated authorship, and community-driven
leadership. Why Use Boost? In a word, Productivity. Use of high-quality
libraries like Boost speeds initial development, results in fewer bugs,
reduces reinvention-of-the-wheel, and cuts long-term maintenance costs. And
since Boost libraries tend to become de facto or de jure standards, many
programmers are already familiar with them.

On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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