I should better explain in README that although Edlib was built with bioinformatics in mind, it is a general edit distance library and it will always keep its core functionality general.
It might have some extra features that additionally make it more useful for bioinformatics, or for some other fields if the need arises, but that will never affect it's direction of development or make it innapropriate for general tasks of edit distance.
So, the direction in which Edlib is developing is not to become the best bioinformatics sequence aligner -> it is to be the fastest library for calculating edit distance that is also easy to use and has complete feature set.
I should better explain in README that although Edlib was built with bioinformatics in mind, it is a general edit distance library and it will always keep its core functionality general. It might have some extra features that additionally make it more useful for bioinformatics, or for some other fields if the need arises, but that will never affect it's direction of development or make it innapropriate for general tasks of edit distance.
So, the direction in which Edlib is developing is not to become the best bioinformatics sequence aligner -> it is to be the fastest library for calculating edit distance that is also easy to use and has complete feature set.