[tialaramex]

No? One of the giveaways of how unserious such responses are is that I spent many years getting paid to write C. The home where I'm writing this was bought† with money made writing C years ago. Rust wasn't even a twinkle in Graydon's eye when I started that job, let alone when I first wrote C last century.

The choice to provide the unstable sort and then add a stable sort as an afterthought smells of the New Jersey approach to me. It was easier to do this, and too bad for the users, they weren't the priority.

It's the wrong choice because if you don't know about sort stability this outcome is surprising, so this means that although a beginner probably thinks they know what "sorting" means they actually mustn't use the sorting APIs in such a language until they've learned extra material.

† For cash, I don't like to owe people money, including having a mortgage