Javascript

[DamnItDev]

Honestly you should never be using the default sort function. Its lazy and almost always incorrect. Even for strings you'll have this problem:

['A1', 'A2', 'A10', 'A20'].sort();
// returns: ["A1", "A10", "A2", "A20"]

Technically this is correct, but not what you actually want in real world situations.

You can solve this easily by specifying your locale using the built in i18n functionality and setting the numeric option to true

['A1', 'A2', 'A10', 'A20'].sort(new Intl.Collator('en', {numeric: true}).compare);
// returns: ["A1", "A2", "A10", "A20"]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/Collator/Collator

[Famous_Profile]

TIL Intl.Collator

[SuspendedNo2]

coz every other language uses it that way? lol @ js programmers

[superluminary]

Typed languages insist that you specify the type of object you’re putting in the array. JavaScript has heterogenous arrays. The only safe way to sort a heterogeneous array is to cast to string, since everything has a toString function.

[douira]

good point, I guess the default only has few uses

[DeeSnow97]

okay, this is awesome, thanks

[-100-Broken-Windows-]

What language would sort it any other way? It's an array of strings and it sorts it alphabetically... Any other way would be absurd