On Monday, November 27, 2017 15:56:09 Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 14:35:03 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky > > wrote: > > Then watch Herb’s Sutter recent talk “Leak freedom by default”. > > Now THAT guy must be out of his mind :) > > He could be, I havent seen it... Shared_ptr isnt frequently used, > it is a last resort,
I don't understand this. I would expect most modern C++ programs to be using shared_ptr as the default for most pointers and thus use it heavily. Any time that I've been able to use at least TR1 for C++, I've used it everywhere, and when I've been stuck with C++98, I've used a home-grown equivalent. shared_ptr is a _huge_ boon for avoiding memory problems. - Jonathan M Davis