if you could briefly outline the space/position of this framework, relative to others (eg https://github.com/cea-sec/miasm ). Would very much appreciate.

Also, besides security aspect (eg intrusion/virus detection), I was looking at these frameworks as a 'higher-level than assembler, and less hardware architecture dependent than LLVM IR) -- is there an angle where reverse engineering tools, have a separate live an better-than-assembler toolchain for low level programming?