On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 13:14:50 UTC, Mark wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 December 2017 at 09:54:05 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
"C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law"
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7804
What do you think of the following comment to that article?
"In well-written modern C++, memory management errors are a
solved problem. You can just write code, and know that the
compiler and library will take care of cleaning up for you,
just like with a GC-based system, but with the added benefit
that it’s deterministic, and can handle non-memory resources
such as file handles and sockets too."
I'm no C++ expert, but isn't that because of the use of unique
pointers and shared pointers? And aren't shared pointers
reference counted and stuck with the usual limitations associated
with reference counting?
