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.
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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.