The very fact that the article itself, with a completely straight face, has all that malloc nonsense in there as "the way you have to do it in C++" is very tell

The very fact that the article itself, with a completely straight face, has all that malloc nonsense in there as "the way you have to do it in C++" is very telling of how easy it is to get the wrong end of the stick with C++ unless you are au fait with the history of the language and its evolution to better more modern idioms