Now-a-days everyone seems to rely on json that sends ["a","b","c"] over the wire will be parsed and stay in that order.
But years ago I remember developers telling me that certain languages json parsing languages implemented arrays differently so you could never rely on the order and had to do stuff like:
[{"a", "sort": 1},{"b", "sort": 2}, {"c", "sort": 3}]
because the client parsing that might end up with:
[{"c", "sort": 3},{"a", "sort": 1},{"b", "sort": 2}]
and then you'd have to re-sort it yourself. Was this a myth? Did old json parsers really have this problem?
But years ago I remember developers telling me that certain languages json parsing languages implemented arrays differently so you could never rely on the order and had to do stuff like:
[{"a", "sort": 1},{"b", "sort": 2}, {"c", "sort": 3}]
because the client parsing that might end up with:
[{"c", "sort": 3},{"a", "sort": 1},{"b", "sort": 2}]
and then you'd have to re-sort it yourself. Was this a myth? Did old json parsers really have this problem?