Bitwise operations are still common and necessary in dealing with matrices and arrays in Matlab/numpy etc.For ordinary code they would be an unnecessary layer o

Bitwise operations are still common and necessary in dealing with matrices and arrays in Matlab/numpy etc.For ordinary code they would be an unnecessary layer of complexity and perhaps even a false source of optimisation.I tend to trust that the language designers know what they are doing more than I do by default at that level of abstraction.