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Re:Endian wars and anti-portability: this again? by pjc50 on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:36AM (#47657056)
> Today, I explicitly only support two architectures: 64-bit x86 and ARM (little-endian). It is wonderful that we have arrived at the point where this is a completely viable proposition. In most cases the cost of supporting marginal users on rare architectures in the year 2026 is not worth it.

This - and efforts to reintroduce BE should be resisted in the same way as people who want to drive on the other side of the road for pure whimsy.

I note that we've mostly converged on one set of floating point semantics as well, although across a range of bit widths.

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