WebAssembly

As explained in the high-level goals, to achieve a Minimum Viable Product, the initial focus is on C/C++.

quake3 has been compiling c code into portable mods since 18 years ago. they could have just used that.

>>16

the most significant letter comes first

I think it's hard to say which letters of a word are most "significant". If you grab a pen to write with but someone appends 'is' to it that's a pretty significant change for you. The order makes sense because you pronounce the "pen" part of the word first, not because it's most significant.

decimal numbers

I would propose the order be switched for decimal numbers too, if anything to fit with the order of my proposed little endian integers. You would still have to parse all the way to the decimal point before gaining any useable information, but this is already the case with the current system.

>>17

So it's more intuitive because it makes more unintentional bugs?

No, it's more intuitive just because it makes since that if I have 5 and then I disregard some empty space I still have 5. If endianess is regularly helping you detect pointer casting errors then you are already screwed.

Do you pronounce that as "eight, eighty, four hundred, one thousand"?

I'm arguing that maybe we should.