sort package provides primitives for sorting slices and user-defined collections.
Basic Sorting
Reverse Sort
Custom Sort
Slice Sort (Go 1.8+)
Searching
Check if Sorted
Practical Examples
Sort Map Keys
Multi-field Sort
Top K Elements
Best Practices
- Use Slice functions - Simpler than implementing sort.Interface
- Use stable sort - When order of equal elements matters
- Sort before search - Binary search requires sorted data
- Check if sorted - Avoid unnecessary sorting
- Consider performance - Slice sort has overhead