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> So besides the bragging rights (I guess?) and discovering latent bugs exposed by the exotic architecture, what's in it for a project to deal with this extra architecture

I submitted the story, and I'm mentioned in it.

For me, it's about demonstrating my stuff runs everywhere Go does.

In particular, this makes s390x the only bigendian architecture I can test on "actual hardware" (vs. QEMU binfmt emulation).

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> In particular, this makes s390x the only bigendian architecture I can test on "actual hardware" (vs. QEMU binfmt emulation).

NetBSD can run a Raspberry Pi in BE mode, if you want another option.

But as long as I'm on GitHub, it's much easier to just add this (and the RISE RISC-V runners, and a few QEMU targets) to CI.

PS: I do also test NetBSD in CI.

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