Hi everyone!

[ljvmiranda921]

Hi maintainers of pyswarm!

This is just a thank you message!

I've used your library two years ago during my undergrad and it helped me a lot in our material science project. It has really been a great help! It's just quite sad that the latest commit in this package was made 2 years ago 😢.

Come grad school, I decided to build a simple PSO module for one of my classes. Last month, I revisited that project, and I decided to turn it into a full-working package. I was inspired by your work that I named it PySwarms (I know I am not creative with names 😞 ). Right now it is still in active development but my vision for that library is to create a research toolbox of different PSO variants.

You can see my vision in the First Major Release issue found here. I am planning to build a more extensible PSO library in which various researchers can try out their models and add them to make PySwarms grow. More importantly, I am also crediting your work in the official documentation and in our README.

Again, thank you so much for this work!

cc: @tisimst @castillohair