Re: Updating Boost overview text

El 05/05/2026 a las 15:41, Mark Cooper via Boost escribió:
> 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 generally like the overall approach of the proposed text, some 
observations:

* I agree with Andrey the tone is a bit too marketing-oriented, I think 
the same message can be conveyed with less boasting.
* "Delivering capabilities the standard does not": no need to present 
Boost in confrontation to the standard. Maybe state that Boost is a 
_potential_ venue for standardization, which links nicely with the 
following statement.
* "have validated this work" sounds weird, why not simply "use Boost"?
* I'm missing some additional mention to the community and the 
peer-reviewed process, though I don't know where that would fit with the 
flow.
* "Great engineering compounds": that sounds nice, but doesn't mean much :-)

Looking fwd to others' opinions.

Joaquín M López Muñoz

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