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Be aware - that is an extreme minority of projects in the real world.

Historically, most of the time the development team only knows a specific platform specific language or way of doing things, and doesn’t have the background or experience to even know that what they would be doing in a specific place isn’t portable.

Languages and cross platform toolkits have developed a lot, but I still would question if most development folks would even recognize something like an endianness issue was a potential problem on some random project.

If someone is doing HTML/js/web dev, they’d never need to worry though I guess (barring something really weird).




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