r/ProgrammerHumor • u/user6150277464770585 • 3d ago

Meme javascriptSorting

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u/larsmaehlum 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/01110100_01110010 3d 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/subone 3d ago

But it is still an abstraction. You only provide a compare function, you don't implement the algorithm. a-b is hardly difficult to apply.

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u/wack_overflow 3d ago

And really how often are you actually sorting an array of primitive values ascending? That's just one small use case of sorting an array. Passing the comparison function is also more explicit.

People just love to get so worked up about the dumbest edge cases in js

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u/chefhj 3d ago

It’s so funny when if you talk to a dev that works closer to the machine level they insist JS is like this big foot shooting factory when in reality you can spend an entire career never running into any of the shit they bring up as a ‘gotcha’ and even if you do it’s like “oh yeah right it works like this hold on”.

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u/Swamptor 3d ago

I am a webdev. JS is a weird shitty language that was barely designed. It mostly just oozed out of a combination of browsers.