Sort Wordpress categories by custom field

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#Sort Wordpress categories by custom field:

where category_order is a custom field.

$categories = get_categories( $args );  

usort($categories, function($a, $b) {
   return get_field("category_order", "category_".$a->term_id) - get_field("category_order", "category_".$b->term_id);
});

thx

or without custom field by using description field