Can you explain how memory management is handled when working with a linked list?

In Flutter (and Dart), memory management when working with linked lists is automatic thanks to the garbage collector (Garbage Collector). When you create list nodes, each node is an object in memory with a reference to the next.

Memory is allocated dynamically when new nodes are created. If a node is no longer accessible (for example, you removed its reference from the list and there are no other references), the garbage collector will automatically free the memory.

It is important to ensure that there are no cyclic references without an exit, although Dart's GC can handle them. Generally, a programmer does not need to manually manage memory; it is enough to correctly update the references between nodes.

Example of a simple linked list node in Dart:

class Node<T> {
  T data;
  Node<T>? next;

  Node(this.data);
}