Writting SIMD code with intrinsics is kind of ugly / non-portable and close to assembly language. But it is useful and given the peculiarities of those SIMD in

Writting SIMD code with intrinsics is kind of ugly / non-portable and close to assembly language. But it is useful and given the peculiarities of those SIMD instructions, I am not convinced that it will ever be sufficient to use "vectorized" types + a few hints and let the compiler do the work. That would be nice though. I understand the hesitation of a language design team to replicate the full intrinsics mess, they are probably hoping to find something better. In the mean time we call still fallback to C to write SIMD heavy code.