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Re:Garbage Collection by rumanator on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:12AM (#21674792)
> and smart pointers never seemed to really catch on outside of Objective-C and Swift:

Smart pointers are a central feature of C++ even before they were added to the C++ standard in 2011.

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Re:Garbage Collection by pjmlp on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:51AM (#21680885)
Indeed, OWL, MFC and VCL already supported them for COM programming since its early days.
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