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ceejayoz 3 hours ago

Every time I work in another language I miss PHP’s arrays.

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conceptme 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Basically every other language has the same functionality (or better) as a hashmap.

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ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m well aware of them. I’m not sure I agree with “better”.

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xp84 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m very curious to hear your take on this. I started out on PHP for about 4-5 years then moved on to Ruby and JS. I never once had any fond thoughts for PHP’s split-personality array thing. So I’m very curious what it is that other people appreciate about it.

	▲	ceejayoz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Having to switch implementations and potentially functionality because, say, the order of the collection matters now is rather annoying, IMO.

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lazka 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That array keys are auto-coerced to integers has bit me multiple times.

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rokkamokka 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are an incredibly versatile tool for sure. Even more so wrapped in a Laravel Collection

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bakugo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me, it's the exact opposite. Every time I work with PHP, I wish I could have TypeScript's properly typed arrays and dictionaries instead of the janky untyped 2-in-1 mess it actually has.

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spiderfarmer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Absolutely. If you don’t know PHP arrays aren’t actually arrays, the other languages feel inferior.