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1. Koakuma (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jun-2022 12:16:49 UTC Koakuma

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   • chjara

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   > And to really hammer that nail, endianness conversion is a thing I wish programmers would get the hell out of their minds because it's pretty much responsible for byte-swap crap being written.

   And how am I supposed to encode/decode data in a portable way without ever byteswapping anything?

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jun-2022 12:16:49 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • chjara
     @koakuma Shifts and masks aren't the point. The point is that you are saying "I put my high bits here and my low bits here", explicitly, rather than saying "I'll copy or swap whatever order my CPU happens to have".
     
     Byte "swapping" implies that you know what your native endianness is. You shouldn't. Ideally the language shouldn't allow you to find out, directly or indirectly, what the byte layout of your word is.
     
     @chjara @lanodan