Of course, but right now almost every machine uses x86 or ARM and I want to write a throwaway image processing program. It just seems like a weird choice becaus

Of course, but right now almost every machine uses x86 or ARM and I want to write a throwaway image processing program. It just seems like a weird choice because the format is almost effortless to use otherwise. You gotta pick one endianness, why not pick the one that's on every machine right now?