Computer programming languages were developed to overcome technical challenges when people had a very hard time writing pure 0s and 1s to code CPU instructions.

Computer programming languages were developed to overcome technical challenges when people had a very hard time writing pure 0s and 1s to code CPU instructions. They knew what those instructions will do and they had 100% certainty about it. This is not the case in biology, however. People still struggle to understand how proteins interact on a molecular level. Few years ago I took part in a project that aimed to engineer a new, synthetic metabolic pathway in yeast. A key enzyme in this pathway had to be introduced from an exotic bacteria. But no matter how much we tried, the enzyme worked very poorly (2 order of magnitude slower) when introduced to cerevisiae. The problems we have in biology today aren't technical, they are still fundamental... Creating a programming language dedicated for wiring genetic circuits is nice, but won't be a game changer.