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by teravor 1 hour ago

    > there are no file formats thatbuse big endian
if someone chooses to do that they own the problems.

    > network byte order isn't a thing
if the network serializes/deserializes for you (kernel primitives) then you don't care what it does. if it doesn't and for some reason you choose to use big endian, again, you own the problem.