Re:Comparison of C++17, Go, and Java for a next-generation s...
by kllrnohj on Friday April 24, 2020 @02:21PM
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> there are tons of ways of doing reference counting in C++
There are but critically there are also a lot of ways to not do ref counting at all. C++ isn't a refcounted language, it's a language where you can use refcounting (shared_ptr), but you don't have to (unique_ptr, value types). It's not even recommended to be primarily refcounted.
They chose a really odd subset of C++ to use here (shared_ptr exclusively), very unorthodox and not something I've ever seen elsewhere or recommended.
There are but critically there are also a lot of ways to not do ref counting at all. C++ isn't a refcounted language, it's a language where you can use refcounting (shared_ptr), but you don't have to (unique_ptr, value types). It's not even recommended to be primarily refcounted.
They chose a really odd subset of C++ to use here (shared_ptr exclusively), very unorthodox and not something I've ever seen elsewhere or recommended.