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 < boost@lists.boost.org> 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.
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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 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