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 # NIH plugs
 
-Because of course we need to remake everything from scratch.
+Because of course we need to remake everything from scratch!
+
+This is a work in progress JUCE-lite-lite written in Rust to do some experiments
+with. The idea is to have a statefull but simple plugin API without too much
+magic, while also cutting unnecessary ceremony wherever possible. Since this is
+not meant for general use (yet), the plugin API is limited to the functionality
+I needed, and I'll expose more functionality as I need it. See the doc comment
+in the `Plugin` trait for an incomplete list of missing functionality.