wip partial new readme

Pull requesting this in to get feedback while this is being fleshed out. Feel free to contribute examples, improve existing examples (there might be a better short example we can use, and the current example seems pretty crude and unusual), suggest rewording or fix typos, This is just a README (not full documentation) and we should keep it relatively short. It's purpose is to define an overview of the modules and to make people interested in using it. Full docs to come later. @Raynos @neonstalwart feedback appreciated