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find /usr/include/c++/14/ -type f | xargs grep '= new'still shows me nearly a hundred uses in standard library headers, so "long gone" is a bit of an exaggeration. If libstdc++ authors are still at that point, imagine where your average coworkers are. ;-)I admit that
shared_ptrwas nice, and the development of "likeauto_ptr, but you can put it in containers" was a godsend. Pointinggrepat my own favorite project I still see 6 invocations ofnewin non-deprecated code, versus about 800 invocations ofmake_unique.But I'd still argue that even modern
unique_ptrbest-practices count as manual management and are thus more annoying than "the programming language will just figure it out". Even if you try to mimic garbage collection behavior withshared_ptryou still have to worry about leaking unreachable cycles of pointers that a garbage collector would have been able to detect. This is all a useful sort of annoying if you write any sort of interactive code where big a garbage collection sweep might drop a frame or add input latency or whatever, and even garbage collected code can leak memory because "I forgot to remove a reference" isn't a drastically different bug from "I forgot to delete an allocation", but heap management is still the thing I notice the most complaints about when users of other languages first move to C++.More options
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