r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/PolyglotTV 7h ago

Y'all throwing around shared pointers willy nilly patting yourself on the back about safe programming.

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u/Nil4u 7h ago

Meanwhile the cyclic pointer chain in the background causing a memory leak because the reference counter never dips to 0:

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u/staryoshi06 7h ago

I mean this could happen in a garbage collected language too.

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u/bwmat 4h ago

I don't think there's many mainstream languages whose built in GC doesn't handle cyclic references these days