> In closing, let me reiterate this point so it is crystal clear. If you are a maintainer of a libre software project and you refuse a community port to another architecture, you are doing a huge disservice to your community and to your software’s overall quality.

Linus Torvalds disagrees. Vehemently.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-No-RISC-V-BE

> For those who don’t know, endianness is simply how the computer stores numbers. Big endian systems store numbers the way us humans do: the largest number is written first.

Really, what's first? You're so keen on having the big end first, but when it comes to looking at memory, you look... starting at the little end of memory first??? What's up with that?

> I happen to prefer big endian systems in my own development life because they are easier for me to work with, especially reading crash dumps.

It always comes back to this. But that's not a good rationale for either the inconsistency of mixed-endianness where the least significant bit is zero but the most significant byte is zero, or true big endianness, where the least significant bit of a number might be a bit numbered 7 or numbered 15, or even 31 or 63, depending on what size integer it is.

> (Porting to different endianness can help catch obscure bugs.)

Yeah, I'm sure using 9 bit bytes would catch bugs, too, but nobody does that either.