On 5/20/16 5:25 AM, Niall Douglas wrote: Thanks for a good summary. I <sniped> the whole thing in the interest of brevity. I don't intend to address the specifics of the proposal here. It would be too long and way too off topic. But I do have a couple of observations. a) It's breathtaking in it's scope. You can't be accused of being timid. Feel free to take that as a compliment. b) There is no way Boost could get to this place starting from where we are now by means of evolution. The gap is just too broad. You'll have to think in terms of intelligent design rather than evolution. This has been done before - after all boost itself was founded by a small group of people who decided to strike out on a whole new path. c) It would make just about every line of code in boost obsolete. d) This would require resources on a scale way beyond what we've seen in boost. Specifically, I'm thinking of library developers. e) So I don't think that boost offers you anything for such a project other than perhaps appropriating the name - which many of us would object to. The story I got from the mouth of David Abrahams was that original name "Boost" was morphed from "Booze" which was meant to leverage on "Java". Pretty lame I know - but perhaps you could do better for a name for your new project. I doubt even forking boost would be of any help. f) You're promoting a whole new vision - which I don't think will fly with current developers, You'll have to convince a whole now cadre of volunteers. Given all this, I think you're efforts in this endeavor will be wasted in boost and you'd likely get more reward starting something from scratch. There is recent example of this as well. see Bartosz Milewski's efforts to promote the next great thing. https://bartoszmilewski.com Good luck with this. Robert Ramey