Big endian will stay around as long as IBM continues to put in the resources to provide first-class Linux support on s390x. Of course if you don’t expect your software to ever be run on s390x you can just assume little-endian, but that’s already been the case for the vast majority of software developers ever since Apple stopped supporting PowerPC.
> ...that’s already been the case for the vast majority of software developers ever since Apple stopped supporting PowerPC.
For better or worse, PowerPC is still quite entrenched in the industrial embedded space.