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how do I sort a collection by several properties but preserving the sort as i go

<https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/sort-by.html>

I assume "preserving the sort as i go" means "stable sorting".

You'll probably end up with,
```
yourCollection.apply {
    sortBy { it.name }
    sortBy { it.age }
    sortBy { it.otherThing }
}
```

yes i htought so, someone was doubting me, i wanted to make sure

<@UBJF87EBY> This way you end up having the collection sorted first by `otherThing` then for elements with equal `otherThing` by `age` and then by `name`

Yeah, I wasn't too sure what "preserving the sort as i go" meant.

It wasn’t clear to me how you know the sorts are stable, so for anyone else looking at this check out the issue here: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12473>

And the release notes here:
<https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2019/01/kotlin-1-3-20-released/>

So the take away is that if you are targeting javascript, you need to be on at least 1.3.20 to garauntee your sorts are stable, otherwise it’s up to the browser implementation