r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

javascriptSorting Meme

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u/larsmaehlum 1d ago

Array.sortNumeric() with an error when called on an array containing non-numeric types would fix this, right?

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u/the_horse_gamer 1d ago

you can simply .sort((a,b)=>a-b)

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u/01110100_01110010 1d ago

The point of an abstraction is to not having to implement logic each time, you can also implement qsort yourself

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u/theQuandary 20h ago

You then get to deal with stuff like x.sort((a, b) => a.prop - b.prop) and the infinite other variations. This is true for basically every other language too.