I’m writing my own programming language that deals with this in a different way. You have your variables, and you have qualifiers like const or mutable. There’s also storage order qualifiers. When you say “bigend i32” that means a 32 bit integer which will be laid out as big endian in memory. But you can still use it normally, to the programmer it has no weird inverted value.

https://gitlab.com/xmdr/ananke/-/blob/master/drafts/example....

So far, progress has been a bit slow. I still don’t have a working interpreter, not to mention compiler, because I find myself tweaking the syntax a lot. Perhaps later in december it will have finalized enough for me to dare write it out.