Right, I've run into this a number of times, especially when porting code originally written for 32 bit to 64 bit. Besides compilers getting better, I think there's another factor - it used to be that a compelling reason to write asm is to get good utilization of a limited number of registers. But especially on aarch64 (and, in the not too distant future, AVX-512), there are a lot more.
Higher level abstractions are a good idea, but the problem is, are you able to exploit the capabilities that the chip exposes? For simple things like computing a scalar function elementwise over a vector, no problem, but a lot of the more interesting problems don't fit such simple templates.
Higher level abstractions are a good idea, but the problem is, are you able to exploit the capabilities that the chip exposes? For simple things like computing a scalar function elementwise over a vector, no problem, but a lot of the more interesting problems don't fit such simple templates.