Fei Peng(@fiigii):By now, big-endian should be dead in our textbooks too. We should stop discussing endianness as though it were still relevant. Even in 2026, I still get questions about little and big endian support in compilers. My brief answer is usually not enough to convince people. They assume big-endian must be important simply because they were taught about it in school.

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Fei Peng@fiigii

2026.08.19 19:38

By now, big-endian should be dead in our textbooks too. We should stop discussing endianness as though it were still relevant. Even in 2026, I still get questions about little and big endian support in compilers. My brief answer is usually not enough to convince people. They assume big-endian must be important simply because they were taught about it in school.