> There are countless rare machines that your code doesn't run on--what's so special about big endian?
One difference is that when your endian-oblivious code runs on a BE system, it can be subtly wrong in a way that's hard to diagnose, which is a whole lot worse than not working at all.
One difference is that when your endian-oblivious code runs on a BE system, it can be subtly wrong in a way that's hard to diagnose, which is a whole lot worse than not working at all.