[dathinab]

> Writing basic data structures isn't a niche, esoteric edge case

writing data structures _properly/well_ was never easy

it just looks easy and is nearly always a sub-par solution

e.g. a list in many lisp like languages seems simple, until you look under the hood what magic tends to be used by more advanced compilers to make that list work fast

the think people most commonly got wrong which was supposedly easy when programming when I was school/stadium where data structures, even comparatively simple ones like double linked lists

it's like sorting, sure you find docents easy to implement sorting algorithms everywhere, but then when you look at the properly implemented sorting build ins of standard libraries their complexity is hundreds of times that of quick sort or similar