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Weblog:   The Future Of Mac: A Discussion
Subject:   Endian-ness will be a non-issue
Date:   2005-10-03 07:36:47
From:   jdodds
"It will be tricky to move to Intel. You can code deep in the environment, not using the APIs, and those people are hosed. The Big-Endian, Little-Endian switch is going to be really, really hard on people."


Endian-ness will be a non-issue for most developers.


While it may be true that "you can code deep" bypassing the APIs (and those people certainly are hosed), the average application is not written that way. Applications that are written that way can be hosed by a minor OS upgrade nevermind a platform change.