[tialaramex]

The thing that's fascinating for std::unordered_map is that it wasn't standardised in C++ 98. These hash tables are a C++ 11 feature.

They feel like a 1980s feature, if there was a hash table in C's stdlib, this is the hash table you'd expect. But it's not in C and it wasn't from the 1980s, it's from the same year Osama Bin Laden was killed by US special forces.

Rust existed at the same time this data structure was standardised. Not Rust 1.0, but that's insane, it's like when you realise millions of older Spanish people were alive before their country was a democracy. Many are old enough to remember the prior regime.

[jcranmer]

Well, if you want to be pedantic, std::unordered_map first appears in the C++ working draft in 2006 (N2009), which is before Rust was first publicly announced.

[tialaramex]

I do want to be pedantic, but not in a fair way :)

The C++ 11 standard was not required to standardize broken garbage from many years ago.

WG21 pulled C++ 0x Concepts (a much more powerful feature than the "Concepts Lite" which landed in C++ 20) because they argued it might take too long to implement, ridiculous as that claim is, so there's no reason to keep something terrible just because it's in a draft paper.