You Don't Understand Your Code
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This Hrih News piece argues that developers often believe they understand their code when they don't, using a series of sorting examples across languages and JavaScript engines. It shows that identical-looking sort calls run different algorithms with different performance and stability characteristics, depending on the language, compiler standard library, or…