The vast majority of developers have 0 need for learning SIMD. Why mislead them, and make them feel like to be a "real" developer they have to know it?
The parent comment is now YouTube famous, and apparently represents the entire Hacker News zeitgeist. Reading replies to this article, it seems... like a slight exaggeration?
It seems like its useful to be aware of at the very least. Surely every developer has written a hot loop that adds or compares simple terms. Knowing that a compiler COULD in theory optimize this for the target CPU architecture is useful in many cases.
