It really depends on the ecosystem you’re working in. For a good while, most developers have been working with managed runtimes, where “non-intrusive” linked li

It really depends on the ecosystem you’re working in. For a good while, most developers have been working with managed runtimes, where “non-intrusive” linked lists are generally the default and “intrusive” linked lists correspondingly rare. (Actually, in many cases arrays are the default (like ArrayList in Java), because lists tend to only get assembled once and then passed around without further modification.)