> python3 -c 'print(None or "hello")' hello It evaluates to the left if that's truthy otherwise it evaluates to the right, similar to how `??` evaluates to

> python3 -c 'print(None or "hello")' hello It evaluates to the left if that's truthy otherwise it evaluates to the right, similar to how `??` evaluates to the left if that's non-null otherwise the right. In C# even if `||` automatically coerced the types, the output will always be a bool.