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I don't really understand why to create a new language. But I like the improvements they made for the Python lang

• dgellow 7y ago
  > With a Python-compatible syntax and a host of domain-specific features and optimizations, Seq makes writing high-performance genomics software as easy as writing Python code, and achieves performance comparable to (and in many cases better than) C/C++. They seem to have a need for better performances.
  • Q6T46nT668w6i3m 7y ago
    I believe that statement is aspirational. Their compiler is using LLVM and standard LLVM optimizations. Yet I can imagine a situation where you’d want to write domain-specific optimizations or heterogenous backends.
    • mhenders 7y ago
      They are also doing some interesting work to allow pipelines to run in parallel. https://github.com/seq-lang/Tapir-LLVM https://github.com/seq-lang/Tapir-LLVM https://seq-lang.org/tutorial.html?highlight=tapir#parallelism https://seq-lang.org/tutorial.html?highlight=tapir#paralleli...
• AllegedAlec 7y ago
  Because this is the precise situation for which you'd want a domain specific language. You have a group of people who are not expert programmers, so pure C/C++ is quite annoying to write, and python's performance on the type of datasets used by these researchers is abysmally slow.
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