I couldn't believe it, tried it out, what the actual heck? I mean I get all these weird string vs number comparison but sorting actual numbers and this comes out? What kind of drugs were the designers of javascript (or at least this function) on... Who thought it was a good idea to sort numbers lexicographically??

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably meth or cocaine, considering js was written by a single person in 10 days

[–] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That way they get to reuse the code for sorting strings!

[–] valourvalkyria@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Iirc Array.sort requires you to pass a function in, or it casts into strings and sort them.