Are there any big-endian chips still in production outside the embedded or specialty market?
Even MIPS and PPC now support a little-endian mode and are usually deployed that way. ARM is nearly always LE or deployed that way, and RISC-V is LE.
Edit: bonus factoid:
Little-endian is slightly more confusing for humans but may be objectively better for machines. On a little-endian machine integer size casts are free -- e.g. casting a uint64_t to uint32_t just means reading the first 4 bytes of it. On big-endian machines integer size casts require pointer math.
Even MIPS and PPC now support a little-endian mode and are usually deployed that way. ARM is nearly always LE or deployed that way, and RISC-V is LE.
Edit: bonus factoid:
Little-endian is slightly more confusing for humans but may be objectively better for machines. On a little-endian machine integer size casts are free -- e.g. casting a uint64_t to uint32_t just means reading the first 4 bytes of it. On big-endian machines integer size casts require pointer math.