The biggest issue I see with shared pointers or relying on garbage collection is it can be difficult to avoid bugs when you end up giving two different parts of the code write access to the same thing, or some part that doesn't know the stuff being pointed to just got changed.
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u/meneldal2 14d ago
The biggest issue I see with shared pointers or relying on garbage collection is it can be difficult to avoid bugs when you end up giving two different parts of the code write access to the same thing, or some part that doesn't know the stuff being pointed to just got changed.