[phkahler]

>> Is there a technical reason why little endian is better besides the fact that it's more popular due to x86/ARM? To me, big endian makes a lot more sense

Some of the other replies have minor technical reasons, but I've always preferred big endian for the readability. Having said that, I'm happy to part with the idea of big endian if it means an end to having 2 options to worry about. One thing that bothers me a lot about RISC-V is that the standard claims to allow either big or little endian implementations. Little has won and nothing new should support big endian IMHO. The benefits of either are largely irrelevant, but the existence of both is a problem. Or maybe it's that the existence of code that cares is the real problem ;-)