The reason almost any developer should have heard of linked lists is that understanding them is fairly fundamental to understanding a bunch of other useful data

The reason almost any developer should have heard of linked lists is that understanding them is fairly fundamental to understanding a bunch of other useful data structures. Some of it may be a terminology problem as well - frontend devs may not have met "linked lists" but what's the difference between a doubly linked list and a straight series of nested objects where no object has more than one child?