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I'll just sort it myself
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This is due to the default sorter in JavaScript sorting by the string value. The reason for that is that this won't create errors at runtime. Since JavaScript does not have types, this is the safest way of sorting.
This works:
Which is a fine decision if you have a programming language to do silly stuff on a personal geocities page, but a horrible one when you start using that language to handle serious data. Silently ignoring what's probably a bug is dangerous.
And that is, of course, what it was designed for.
JS is brilliant considering that it was created by one dude in 10 days. Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.
Get out of here with your sensibility!
^kidding, ^js ^via ^ts ^is ^my ^life.
ah yes, a reasonable solution to that problem that any human would think of
ah yes, a reasonable problem that any human would think of -- "what if someone tries to sort a list containing some integers and some arrays, and our interpreter needs to keep chugging instead of telling the programmer they fucked up?"