alt Hacker NewsOwnership problems with pointer/references don't end with allocation.
A codebase can use only std::make_unique() to allocate heap, and still pass around raw pointers to that memory (std::unique_ptr::get()).
The real problem is data model relying on manual lifetime synchronization, e.g. pass raw pointer to my unique_ptr to another thread, because this thread joins that thread before existing and killing the unique_ptr.
I don’t disagree. That’s why I don’t write C++ anymore. It’s a masochistic language and trying to do it in a team environment with people who do understand how to do it properly is a mess let alone adding in people who don’t know.