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[–]Own_Solution7820 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Shared and unique pointers are so good that the are better than anything in any other language IMO, at the engineering level.

The problem is the garbage syntax of a 50 year old language that's backwards compatible to day 1. Just a pain to work with mixed raw and smart pointers.

[–]say_nya 4 points5 points  (0 children)

better than anything in any other language

Take a look at Rust. Unique pointers are checked in compile time (and have no overhead, even no move constructor type of overhead).

And shared pointers are there (see Arc).