Fortunately much of the world has already settled on an endianness, and the one that happens to be most logical to process (byte offset n has weight 256^n, much like bit x has weight 2^x.)
In the future, hopefully big-endian machines will be as uncommon as bytes that are not 8 bits, and the only protocols still using it are the ones which were designed long ago.
In the future, hopefully big-endian machines will be as uncommon as bytes that are not 8 bits, and the only protocols still using it are the ones which were designed long ago.