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

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

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.