On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 16:43:27 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
Best example is probably managed C++, an MS extension to C++ which is now deprecated.
MS Managed C++ was superseded by C++/CLI[1] which was standardized. They actually retained the special syntax for GC pointers. One of the motivations if I understand correctly is to let the programmers easily distinguish which pointers should be freed and which ones are managed by the GC. It's not a bad idea when there is extensive use of both manual memory management and garbage collection.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI
