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A sorted map would be tree-based and require its keys to be orderable but not hashable. For instance Rust's HashMap has its key bound on Hash + Eq, while BTreeMap's is bound on Ord.

They're different data structures, with different use cases and different requirements.

> There's no ordering over _most_ hashable values since they span multiple types, so insertion ordering is the only sane way to do it.

Python 2 actually had total ordering of all values. The result was usually stupid but it was there.



>The result was usually stupid but it was there

This is what I meant by "sane" in my comment. It's _way_ more meaningful to the user if data's insertion-ordered.




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