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by pjmlp 4243 days ago
Raw pointers is the last item on your list after RC pointers.
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dbaupp 4243 days ago
From this response, I guess that maybe you were meaning C++ favours RC compared to manual memory management, and were not saying that it is the globally preferred option, but this differs to everything else in your list: the others are the main/preferred strategy in those languages/libraries.
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pjmlp 4243 days ago
> I guess that maybe you were meaning C++ favours RC compared to manual memory management,

Yes.

> the others are the main/preferred strategy in those languages/libraries.

While true, manual memory management is still possible, but should be left for the 1% cases that really benefit from it.

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