[Artlav]

And that's another reason - gone are the days when code was written in machine language by people looking at bytes, and with it gone the only reason to keep these bytes in human-readable form.

It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago.

[twic]

People still routinely look at data in hexdumps, and little-endian is still as irritating as it ever was.

[DerekL]

> It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago.

Not quite. ENIAC, for example, did calculations in decimal, and it was finished in 1945. There may be more recent examples.

If you include binary-coded decimal, that still includes machines made in 1970 or later, like the IBM 1401.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25523904