[pjmlp]

I am looking at it of the point of view of joe/jane developer that cannot tell head from tail regarding vector programming and doesn't even know what compiler intrinsics are for, and use languages that don't expose them anyway.

[voldacar]

Well those people will never be getting the most out of their CPUs to begin with.

[pjmlp]

Which is the whole point of "this implicit hope that you just code as always and the compiler will take care of the rest via auto-vectorization and PhD level optimization algorithms.", because not only do those people not get it, there is a general decline in using languages that expose vector intrisics like C and C++ for regular LOB applications.