Maintain alphabetical ordering

[stefan-toubia]

It would be very useful to be able to programmatically manage deps.edn files but it's somewhat of a dealbreaker that we cannot currently maintain alphabetical ordering since the config files should remain human readable as well.

[borkdude]

@stefan-toubia I'm open to a PR for this

[borkdude]

I think we can make an explicit sort-map function that takes a map and sorts it, or a more general sort-alphabetical that takes a collection. Clojure-lsp has some logic for it which we could borrow:

https://github.com/clojure-lsp/clojure-lsp/blob/6fc2636affc18254c503f8182d9b0685aec19086/lib/src/clojure_lsp/feature/sort_clauses.clj

[borkdude]

Here is some more info by @lread on the challenges of sorting a map:

https://nextjournal.com/lread/sorting-maps-by-key-with-rewrite-clj

[borkdude]

@lread That code you got there isn't maybe so bad and better than nothing? Maybe I'll just add it and then refine it as we come across issues...

[lread]

It might be an OK start.
@mainej has done a lot more thinking on this than I have.