I understand the thread on programming languages is over and to be
continued on Golug for those interested, but here is a follow-up which
is somehow related to Devuan.

    I happen to have been following for many years the Debian-Powerpc
mailing list and this list is full of issues with applications showing
bugs related to endianness . The authors write their applications with
some endianness in mind!  Here is the last example:

Le 18/11/2024 à 16:39, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> The problem is that Firefox is currently not fully compatible with big-endian
> systems like your PowerMac G5. There are supposedly patches which address these
> issues, notably on Solaris SPARC.

    There are patches which (maybe) correct these bugs? Very well! But
new ones appear constantly!

    Endianness bugs are the major reason why big-endian Powerpc has
been removed from Debian's "release" architectures about a decade ago
and moved to "ports", and is absent of Devuan.

    This constant flow of similar bugs is caused by either bad
programming or bad languages. And the Unix/Linux ecosystem is full of
them -- non-free software is as bad for sure, but I care less. This
enormous waste of productivity is very disapointing when you know that
all these hardware-related bugs would disapear magically with the
adoption of a better language and a better programming attitude -- the
later comes with the former. And Devuan could be installed on big-endian
powerpc.

--     Didier