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Re:Go will use pdqsort in next release by edflsafoiewq on Thursday April 21, 2022 @02:39AM (#31106592)
Happened in JS land. IE was stable and sites depended on it. FF switched to match IE. Chrome switched to match IE and FF. And then finally they put it into the spec.
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Re:Go will use pdqsort in next release by ElectricalUnion on Thursday April 21, 2022 @09:24PM (#31117210)
> IE was stable

[citation needed]

This is the wrong wording, IE had a decently enough installed/captive user base. It was never particularly stable.

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