README updates (#208)

Author: slayoo

README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ![logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/open-atmos/PyPartMC/logo.svg)
 
-# PyPartMC (pre-alpha!)
+# PyPartMC
 
 PyPartMC is a Python interface to [PartMC](https://lagrange.mechse.illinois.edu/partmc/), 
   a particle-resolved Monte-Carlo code for atmospheric aerosol simulation.
-Since PyPartMC is implemented in C++, it also constitutes a C++ API to the PartMC Fortran internals;
-  the Python API can be used from other environments - see, e.g., Julia example below.
+PyPartMC is implemented in C++ and it also constitutes a C++ API to the PartMC Fortran internals.
+The Python API can facilitate using PartMC from other environments - see, e.g., Julia example below.
 
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@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ import PyPartMC
 - hassle-free installation using `pip` (prior PartMC installation **not needed**)
 - works out of the box on [mybinder.org](https://mybinder.org/), [Google Colab](colab.research.google.com/) and alike
 - ships with [a set of examples](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC-examples) maintained in a form of Jupyter notebooks
-- Pythonic API (but retaining PartMC jargon) incl. exceptions and GC deallocation of Fortran objects 
+- Pythonic API (but retaining PartMC jargon) incl. Python GC deallocation of Fortran objects
+- specification of parameters using native Python datatypes (lists, dicts) in place of PartMC spec files
 - code snippets in README depicting how to use PyPartMC from Julia (also executed on CI)
-- auto-generated [docs on the web](https://open-atmos.github.io/PyPartMC/)
-- support for [de]serialization of all exposed structures using JSON 
+- auto-generated [API docs on the web](https://open-atmos.github.io/PyPartMC/)
+- support for [de]serialization of selected wrapped structures using JSON 
 - based on [unmodified PartMC code](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/tree/main/gitmodules)
 - does not use or require shell or netCDF Fortran library
 - aiming at 100% [unit test coverage](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/tree/main/tests)
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ PyPartMC is used within the [test workflow of the PySDM project](https://github.
 
 - PyPartMC is written in C++, Fortran and uses [pybind11](https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) and [CMake](https://cmake.org/).
 - JSON support is handled with [nlohmann::json](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) and [pybind11_json](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11_json)
-- PartMC and selected parts of SUNDIALS are compiled during `pip install` and statically linked
+- PartMC and selected parts of SUNDIALS are statically linked (and compiled in during `pip install` or `python -m build`) 
 - C (SUNDIALS), C++ (pybind11, ...) and Fortran (PartMC, CAMP) dependencies are linked through [git submodules](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/blob/main/.gitmodules)
 - a [mock of Fortran netCDF API](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/blob/main/src/fake_netcdf.F90) and a [mock of PartMC spec file API](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/blob/main/src/fake_spec_file.F90) are used for i/o from/to JSON 
 
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ PyPartMC codebase benefits from Pylint, Black and isort code analysis (which are
 
 #### PyPartMC:
 
-author: [PyPartMC developers](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/graphs/contributors)   
+authors: [PyPartMC developers](https://github.com/open-atmos/PyPartMC/graphs/contributors)   
 funding: [US Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research programme](https://asr.science.energy.gov/)   
 copyright: [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](https://atmos.illinois.edu/)   
 licence: [GPL v3](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)