• Durotar@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Our default sort converts everything to string, then sorts by UTF-16 code. So yes, [1, 10, 3] is sorted and you are going to live with it.

    I’m not sure whether this is satire or not.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not. The default sorter does that, because that way it can sort pretty much anything without breaking at runtime. You can overwrite it easily, though. For the example above you could simply do it like this:

      [3, 1, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b)

      Returns: [1, 3, 10]

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        The default sorter does that, because that way it can sort pretty much anything without breaking at runtime.

        who the fuck decided that not breaking at runtime was more important than making sense?

        this js example of [1, 3, 10].sort() vs [1, 3, 10].sort((a, b) => a - b) will be my go to example of why good defaults are important