From that thread:

> Yes, I was also wondering why it's necessary to come up with yet another smart pointer, which you need to learn and which is probably not battle tested. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18586992

Even though on the main website they say:

> No custom containers, smart pointers, or reinvented basics. This allows you to reuse your existing knowledge and focus on what's most important: your app.

Author of boden here: We have since moved away from a self written smart pointer and replaced as much as possible with standard C++ classes ( shared_ptr, weak_ptr, std::string etc. )