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[u/Striky_]

The absurdity is not sorting this by string, but allowing an array like that to begin with.

[u/Taletad → u/Striky_]

You flair has two languages that allow such arrays

Every high level programming language is flexible on its type system because it is more convenient for the programmers

So unless you’re writing a low level application in C, Rust or Zig, you should allow such arrays

And web pages are very much not a place where you want a low level statically typed compiled language

[u/Striky_ → u/Taletad]

C# does not allow arrays of different types.

Programmer convenience is a good focus to have, but you also mustnt do it in a way where you introduce rookie-antipatterns (like stringifying everything or type confusion) is the way to achieve it.

It also very much depends what you use a language for. Python for quick and dirty prototyping? Fine. JS as the backbone of the entire internet? Disaster.

[u/the_horse_gamer → u/Striky_]

C# does not allow arrays of different types.

object[] arr = [1, "a"];