Cat Furious That JavaScript String Comparison Makes Dog Greater Than Cat

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A meme with bold white text at the top reading 'HE IS MAD THAT "DOG" > "CAT" IS TRUE IN JAVASCRIPT'. Below is a code snippet showing 'console.log("Dog" > "Cat") //true'. The main image shows an angry-looking Scottish Fold cat sitting on a tiled floor next to an orange appliance, with a human hand reaching toward it offering a treat and the cat aggressively grabbing at it with a disgruntled expression. The cat's anger perfectly represents the frustration with JavaScript's lexicographic string comparison, where 'Dog' > 'Cat' evaluates to true because 'D' has a higher Unicode code point than 'C'. The imgflip watermark is visible in the bottom right

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick In JavaScript, dogs are greater than cats. In TypeScript, the compiler would've stopped you from comparing pets in the first place

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

In JavaScript, dogs are greater than cats. In TypeScript, the compiler would've stopped you from comparing pets in the first place
Anonymous

Of course 'Dog' > 'Cat'. It's lexicographical order. The cat's not mad about that. It's mad because ('b' + 'a' + + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase() is 'banana'
@purplesyringa 7mo

okay but why are we talking shit about JS when the exact same thing happens literally everywhere else
1. @purplesyringa 7mo
  
  well okay not everywhere
  
  @nwordtech 7mo
  
  50% of the time it works all the time. Just don't update your binary
  
  _ 7mo
  
  It compares the pointers and it so happends that "Dog" is stored earlier in the executable than "Cat" ? Maybe try running with others optimization levels
  
  _ 7mo
  
  Actually the C standard made it UB to compare cats and dog that way3
  
  dev_meme 7mo
  
  Additionaly, even in a tiny program, the compiler uses its normal constant-pool layout rules, so literals aren’t stored in source order
@anonusernametg 7mo

Idk why but I love this cat sooo much
_ 7mo

But in a shell, cat > dog is valid while dog > cat is not
@hyena_stuff 7mo

Be gone spambot! @linegel