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This might be more useful for a task like "read files off a list, and download them in parallel, with no more than 20 concurrent downloads." That particular task might be a one-liner in some programming languages, but there are a lot of programs like that which need significant bookkeeping and/or boilerplate even though their plain-language description of intended behavior is not complicated.

Or implementing a sophisticated protocol that has a formal specification. If you can express the correct behavior in some kind of pithy pseudocode, a tool like this could "compile" that to code in various programming languages. Like a super-powered version of SWIG.