Pragmatically, cost and ease of access is especially important in suppressed countries or ones with unstable infrastructure. While the devices you're talking about has lots of conveniences, distribution and price dominate in lower income regions.
For a side project, sure. But in first world countries, the odds of infrastructure breakdown or suppression of Internet is incredibly rare. In Iran's case, suppression is a weapon so phone only makes a lot of sense.
Phoronix paints a very different picture, especially in non-synthetic workloads[1]. Gravitron2 looks like a nice speedup over the first generation but either the optimization isn't there yet or there are areas which need additional work to become more developer/HPC competitive. That said, I'm thrilled we have competition in the architecture space for general purpose compute again.
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Implicit is basically just an implementation detail. The idea of only allowing one typeclass instance per data is generally referred as confluence and you're correct in that scala doesn't attempt to enforce it.
I understand the Haskell communities desire for coherent typeclasses, but I still find the newtype work around cludge to allow multiple implementation of, say, Monoid to be quasi hacky. What's worse, you can still fairly easily define multiple instances of the same typeclass accidentally (orphan instances) and the compiler won't catch it.
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For a side project, sure. But in first world countries, the odds of infrastructure breakdown or suppression of Internet is incredibly rare. In Iran's case, suppression is a weapon so phone only makes a lot of sense.