I want to do something like this: mylist.sort { it.popular or not } and then mylist.sort { it.name ascending } in the one list. I want the popular at the top and the rest sorted by name

A single sort with a comparator function that checks both popular and name sounds like the best option there I think.

Scratch that it didn't work. Deleting.

What we often do when we're sorting across multiple "keys" is to synthesize a single thing to compare on. For something like this we'd prefix the

name

with

a

for

popular

items and

z

for not

popular

items and sort on that combined string.

Oh very nice!

Oh, I wish I'd used the ".thenBy" ... very nice... but its working and committed and pushed now