alt Hacker News> Arrays are hash tables.
Maybe in JavaScript... but there is a topic called datastructures, where arrays are arrays, and hashtables are hastables. If people say this without a flip of an eye I'm not surprised why people write stuff like
> I thought that hash tables were something that were basically impossible to make in C
In a trivial sense, arrays are hash tables with a hash function of the identity f(x)=x.
It’s just not particularly common (or helpful) to view them that way.