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		masklinn on July 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Byte Order Fiasco (2021) Is it though? Because my experience is very different than GP’s: git uses network byte order for its binary files, msgpack and cbor use network byte order, websocket uses network byte order, …

IshKebab on July 1, 2024 [–]

Yeah I'd say it should be true but there are plenty of modern protocols that still inexplicably use big endian.

For your own protocols there's no need to deal with big endian though.

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