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 ## What?
 
+Gloo is a collection of libraries, and those libraries provide ergonomic Rust 
+wrappers for browser APIs. `web-sys`/`js-sys` are very difficult/inconvenient 
+to use directly so provides wrappers around the raw bindngs which makes it easier
+to consume those APIs. This is why it is called a "toolkit", instead of "library"
+or "framework".
+
+### Background
+
 In [the Rust and WebAssembly working group's 2019 roadmap][roadmap], we chose to
 deliberately cultivate our library ecosystem by building a modular toolkit: