I don't know why this is still being done with new languages, but it really peeves me when I see syntactically privileged data structures. You get them in pract

I don't know why this is still being done with new languages, but it really peeves me when I see syntactically privileged data structures. You get them in practically all languages, whether they're records or dicts or arrays or lists. The only language that I've seen that even gets close to the right approach is Scala. You don't use special syntax to create an array that you wouldn't also use for a list or a map or a set. There's no special bracket type, no master data structure that all others must bow to. And the result is that you don't mindlessly default to the wrong data structures for your problem.