Ask HN: Did JSON array order used to be a problem?
Now-a-days everyone seems to rely on json that sends [&quot;a&quot;,&quot;b&quot;,&quot;c&quot;] over the wire will be parsed and stay in that order.<p>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:<p>[{&quot;a&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 1},{&quot;b&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 2}, {&quot;c&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 3}]<p>because the client parsing that might end up with:<p>[{&quot;c&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 3},{&quot;a&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 1},{&quot;b&quot;, &quot;sort&quot;: 2}]<p>and then you&#x27;d have to re-sort it yourself. Was this a myth? Did old json parsers really have this problem?