Mostly looks scary* because that's just how it is with intrinsics syntax in C and C++. As with many things there, this pain is mostly self-inflicted.
There are C++ libraries that allow for C#-style SIMD and hardware instrinsics syntax as far as I'm aware. It comes at a disadvantage as you can't directly lookup mnemonics in ISAs documentation though.
*not to seem as if dismissing the importance of the work done there, just highlighting that it could have been much more accessible to wider audience, but I'm not gonna suggest something that everyone here would consider preposterous such as rewriting inference back-end in C# just yet
There are C++ libraries that allow for C#-style SIMD and hardware instrinsics syntax as far as I'm aware. It comes at a disadvantage as you can't directly lookup mnemonics in ISAs documentation though.
*not to seem as if dismissing the importance of the work done there, just highlighting that it could have been much more accessible to wider audience, but I'm not gonna suggest something that everyone here would consider preposterous such as rewriting inference back-end in C# just yet