Ownership and Lifetimes != Reference counting. Reference counting is code smell that you don't have a clear ownership model. Take a look a Rust for something

Ownership and Lifetimes != Reference counting. Reference counting is code smell that you don't have a clear ownership model. Take a look a Rust for something more along the lines of what I'm talking about. There's been quite a few people who've re-written their C/C++ code to Rust only to find out that they didn't have a clear ownership model and found architectural improvements because of it.