09:12:49 <jkeler88[m]> Hello guys. I would like to help you guys with development. Have 10+ years of coding experience (C, python, perl, golang, php, js, assembly) 
09:12:49 <jkeler88[m]> Where is the best starting point?  
09:37:57 <moneromooo> hi
09:38:19 <moneromooo> You can either go through the issues on github to see if anything seems like you want to work on,
09:38:54 <moneromooo> or just use the software, find something that you want to fix/improve, and fix/improve it (asking about it here first is probably good).
09:39:56 <moneromooo> As a general rule, please try to post minimal patches (ie, no random reindents, no multiple unrelated changes in one patch, etc)
09:41:11 <moneromooo> I favour the "try it and fix what irritates you" approach. Gives you a reason to hack on it, and yo'll typically start with bite sized bits, and you'll learn what's where incrementally.
09:42:25 <moneromooo> If you have particular areas of interest, you can also mention them here and maybe people will reply with ideas.
11:15:40 <afungible[m]> > <@jkeler88:matrix.org> Hello guys. I would like to help you guys with development. Have 10+ years of coding experience (C, python, perl, golang, php, js, assembly) 
11:15:40 <afungible[m]> > Where is the best starting point?  
11:15:40 <afungible[m]> Check out https://monerodocs.org/
11:15:40 <afungible[m]> Its unofficial documentation, has some good info.
11:22:31 <moneromooo> And probably slightly out of date.
17:11:09 <jeffro256[m]> Do we support any big endian systems?
17:11:42 <jeffro256[m]> I can't find any big endian CPU + OS combinations that we are able to support 
17:15:05 <jeffro256[m]> It would be good news if I can drop big endian support because it would greatly simplify some code I'm working on
17:20:49 <hyc> we really only support x86 and arm these days, and both are little endian\
17:21:00 <hyc> maybe powerpc is big endian?
17:21:22 <hyc> (technically, arm is configurable to be either big or little, but most OSs use little)
17:22:05 <moneromooo> There was someone testing on big endian a while back, got some fixes done, there's an issue on github that should be findable.
20:07:52 <vtnerd> powerpc is big endian. The programmer behind raptor/talos added support, and I think _may_ (or at least was) a monero supporter
20:08:46 <vtnerd> its an interesting platform to do a full-chain audit, but the cost is too high for most people. and it looks like the prices went up since pandemic
20:09:50 <vtnerd> I also recall the programmer verifying that monerod worked on that system (at least during the initial PRs)
20:10:05 <hyc> yeah we don't have a lot of byte-order dependent code
20:10:43 <hyc> at this point I couldn't see justifying the price/performance to buy any PPC based systems
20:13:03 <vtnerd> yeah and I think randomX is still interpreted on that platform, which came out after that PR iirc
20:13:24 <vtnerd> *those PRs (to make it big endian compatible)
20:16:06 <hyc> true, no one has done a PPC jit yet for randomx
20:17:12 <hyc> might be fun to have one of these for novelty sake https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/
20:17:23 <hyc> but the specs are already obsolete, ddr3, etc