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by CyberDildonics 543 days ago
You absolutely can. Heap allocation for every component is already unneccesary, but loose pointers on top of that is a huge red flag.

This seems like someone who isn't up to date with the most elegant and fastest ways to write C++. Charging money on top of that is egregious, not to mention that there are lots of great GUI libraries already. FLTK, Juce, Qt to name a few.