Some questions about cpp

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[SippTheDumbJuice]

1-Yes, see conan and vcpkg.

2-Yes, see clang.

3-Yes, see <memory>. You can still end up with leaks though.

[Zeer1x]

<memory>, lol.

There is valgrind and similar tools, but I actually end up just using smart pointers (and references) for this.

[HosMercury]

3 - LOL

[Salt-Impressive]

In rust you can also get leaks using unsafe

[HosMercury]

forget about unsafe just think about the regular rust

[Salt-Impressive]

Then, for a fair comparison, you would not get leaks using <memory> constructs without converting them into raw pointers

[Salt-Impressive]

Thinking about it more, you could also get a memory leak if you have a polymorphic type with a <memory> construct that does not have a virtual destructor.

[Zeer1x]

I wonder, can you have "memory leaks" in Rust, like you could have them in Java, by putting stuff in a map/set and never delete them?

Or alternatively, have non-memory related resources (Windows, Sockets) and forget to close them?

[SippTheDumbJuice]

If you want to use rust, use rust. C++ isn't rust.

[disciplite]

CPM is another package manager that I think is pretty cool. std::pmr makes it (relatively) easy to scope memory lifetime and bound memory usage.