> > It's not a hashmap, or a map, or an object. No. It's an attrset. Riiiiight.

> This was intentional. Most hashing algorithms don't guarantee a stable ordering of keys.

Then it's an ordered map.

Since you're creating a new language, you can say right up front "in Nix, all maps are ordered maps" and then just refer to them as maps.

There is existing terminology for all of this stuff, and it should have been reused.