{"thread":{"id":"Rtl5BgRGpKdx","title":"do I really need to learn linked lists","content":"Second year. Prof says yes. Everybody online says nobody uses them, use arrays. Am I wasting my time?","category":"general","status":"open","author":"cs_student_01","createdAt":"2026-10-27T13:54:14.234Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:14:14.234Z","expiresAt":null,"replyCount":4},"replies":[{"id":"bOBlxI0Hbv4a","content":"Yes you need them, because of the interview and because of the 30 minutes it takes you to learn what a pointer is. It's not going to take long, stop asking.","author":"gcfail","createdAt":"2026-10-27T14:16:14.234Z"},{"id":"1LaAwDihjjMY","content":"The Linux kernel uses them all over the place. Most application code shouldn't, since arrays win on cache behaviour. You should know both and why.","author":"jf","createdAt":"2026-10-27T15:14:14.234Z"},{"id":"CFNRQuZ4nk5z","content":"\"everybody online\" has never shipped anything","author":"vek","createdAt":"2026-10-27T15:29:14.234Z"},{"id":"e68gz0gv5SFs","content":"A list is one of the two structures the rest of computer science is built from. I'm obviously biased.","author":"carcdr","createdAt":"2026-10-27T17:14:14.234Z"}]}