One idea is we use little endian for the incrementing nonce (used internally), and big endian for the content length (sent over the network). Little endian for the nonce helps make incrementing with libsodium easy, because libsodium provides a increment function which increments a little-endian buffer.
Not sure whether to use big endian or little endian.
My understanding is most CPUs are LE (so LE is more efficient), but network protocols are "supposed to be" BE. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Endianness
One idea is we use little endian for the incrementing nonce (used internally), and big endian for the content length (sent over the network). Little endian for the nonce helps make incrementing with libsodium easy, because libsodium provides a
incrementfunction which increments a little-endian buffer.