[arendtio]

Everyone should know SIMD, okay, but please don't introduce that kind of code into my codebase for a linear 5x improvement.

If you work on a performance-critical application, that's fine, but most of the time we use some interpreted / VM / garbage-collected slow environment that performs so much slower than just using hardware directly, and we are fine with it. Under those circumstances, it is much better to have code that every developer can understand than to introduce a 5x improvement, with code that only the person who wrote it understands.

I mean, e.g. for Go, this simplicity was one of the explicit design goals. For C / Rust / Zig, it might be a different story, but I hope you choose those languages only if they fit your use-case.