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+pybind11 is a lightweight header-only library that
+exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of
+existing C++ code. Its goals and syntax are similar to the excellent
+Boost.Python by David Abrahams: to minimize boilerplate code in traditional
+extension modules by inferring type information using compile-time
+introspection.
+
+The main issue with Boost.Python-and the reason for creating such a similar
+project-is Boost. Boost is an enormously large and complex suite of utility
+libraries that works with almost every C++ compiler in existence. This
+compatibility has its cost: arcane template tricks and workarounds are
+necessary to support the oldest and buggiest of compiler specimens. Now that
+C++11-compatible compilers are widely available, this heavy machinery has
+become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency.
+
+Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with
+everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. Without
+comments, the core header files only require ~4K lines of code and depend on
+Python (2.7 or 3.x, or PyPy2.7 >= 5.7) and the C++ standard library. This
+compact implementation was possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language
+features (specifically: tuples, lambda functions and variadic templates). Since
+its creation, this library has grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading
+to dramatically simpler binding code in many common situations.
+