Since in bioinformatics, some processes are vastly more time-consuming than others it is not clear what the benefit of designing a new language is as opposed to

Since in bioinformatics, some processes are vastly more time-consuming than others it is not clear what the benefit of designing a new language is as opposed to adding an optimized, C library into Python itself. What functionality would not work the same way if this were a python library? That being said, it is a neat and impressive effort, I do fear though that it will have a whole lot less uptake as now requires bioinformaticians to learn a third language (Python, R and now seq) Historically I note a similarity to the 'Mothur' and 'Qiime' split. 'Mothur' is a dynamic language similar to 'seq' whereas 'Qiime' is Python glue across many libraries. Frankly, I like 'mothur' better, but 'Qiime' is whole lot more popular.