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Endian wars and anti-portability: this again? | The Dalmatian Life

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Note: This is another really technical post. Those who do not know the difference between a PowerPC and an ARM can probably skip this one – we’ll be back to general audience posts tomorrow! One of my friends made the mistake this evening of linking me to a thread about endianness on that bastion of free expression, Hacker News. (Feel the shade dripping from my virtual pen.). I had drafted this article for Old Blog, but I never published it because I was never quite satisfied that I had a good ending. Well, today Zach has gotten me on with it. I rewrote the ending. I grow weary, dear reader, of the hostility in the broader open source software community against portability. It is exhausting to hear the same tired arguments against portability, especially when in the end most projects end up realising the errors of their ways. So, here are some of the most common arguments I hear and my rebuttals to them. The most disturbing, and frequent, argument that I hear is that whatever port I hav

Endian wars and anti-portability: this again? Published 3 April 2026 by Spots Note : This is another really technical post. Those who do not know the difference between a PowerPC and an ARM can probably skip this one – we’ll be back to general audience posts tomorrow! One of my friends made the mistake this evening of linking me to a thread about endianness on that bastion of free expression, Hacker News. (Feel the shade dripping from my virtual pen.). I had drafted this article for Old Blog, but I never published it because I was never quite satisfied that I had a good ending. Well, tod

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