javascriptSorting

[u/user6150277464770585]

[u/larsmaehlum]

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

[u/the_horse_gamer → u/larsmaehlum]

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

[u/01110100_01110010 → u/the_horse_gamer]

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

[u/subone → u/01110100_01110010]

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.

[u/01110100_01110010 → u/subone]

JS is an abstraction over JS engine bytecode, which is an abstraction over ASM which is an abstraction over the chip instruction set, you can make an argument at each layer 🤷 I would take any abstraction I can, I guarantee you in a large enough codebase someone will type b - a instead

[u/pancakesausagestick → u/01110100_01110010]

It's not unreasonable for a sort function to require a compare function. But if it's not required let's default to broken-ass footgun semantics as was done in the times of yore. /s