Now that is how you advertise at me. I've seen more "minimal flexible generic configurable simple performant powerful easy extensible non-bloated" libraries than I can shake a stick at. But "this helps with the dull stuff"... that's a sales pitch I can get behind!
(A constructive hint to those describing their libraries: At this point, use of pretty much any of those words in your summary sentence is a massive negative to me. They are of null content, and you just burned the most valuable marketing space you had on these null-content words. Everybody says that about their libraries. Tell me what it does in the summary. If you really want to make the point for one of those words, do it later in the documentation, because if your summary sounds like you copy/pasted my quoted bit above, I'm not even going to read your extended documentation. And when you do, provide evidence; if you're "performant", show me competitive benchmarks. I get that they're going to be biased, but it at least shows me what's important. If you're "simple" show me in the sample code. Etc.)
Now that is how you advertise at me. I've seen more "minimal flexible generic configurable simple performant powerful easy extensible non-bloated" libraries than I can shake a stick at. But "this helps with the dull stuff"... that's a sales pitch I can get behind!
(A constructive hint to those describing their libraries: At this point, use of pretty much any of those words in your summary sentence is a massive negative to me. They are of null content, and you just burned the most valuable marketing space you had on these null-content words. Everybody says that about their libraries. Tell me what it does in the summary. If you really want to make the point for one of those words, do it later in the documentation, because if your summary sounds like you copy/pasted my quoted bit above, I'm not even going to read your extended documentation. And when you do, provide evidence; if you're "performant", show me competitive benchmarks. I get that they're going to be biased, but it at least shows me what's important. If you're "simple" show me in the sample code. Etc.)