> Go has typed container types while PHP has not. I suggest looking at https://github.com/Crell/Serde https://github.com/Crell/Serde, if that is a requirement

> Go has typed container types while PHP has not. I suggest looking at https://github.com/Crell/Serde https://github.com/Crell/Serde, if that is a requirement in PHP. > PHP is more convenient at another common case which is heterogeneous maps. Or arbitrary, user-defined keys... > If you want/need to walk through it in a single pass fashion, then Go is definitely more fitting. array_map, array_reduce, array_column is pretty good at walking through arrays very quickly, assuming you parsed the json into arrays instead of objects.