Smart pointers in C, wow, who would imagine? Although I must say, I'll probably never use this in a project because: - Using C for anything but systems program

Smart pointers in C, wow, who would imagine? Although I must say, I'll probably never use this in a project because: - Using C for anything but systems programming is either malevolence or for fun, there's no pratical reason for it. In this case you probably don't want to have external dependencies only to have data structures. - Having dependencies in C is an absolute pain in the ass unless it's a single header file (such as sqlite). It also makes it much harder to make the codebase portable. I might try it out though just for gigs and laughs. Tangentially, I wonder why more C developers don't use self-contained dependencies such as GNULib [0], Klib [1], or APR [2] instead of reimplementing base primitives. It's so common for C projects to reimplement every single thing from scratch. "If you want to make a pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" kind of thing. Managing packages is a pain, but reimplementing an efficient battle-tested hash table is even worse IMO. Would be happy to hear it from people who worked (professionally) with C about this. [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ [1]: https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib [2]: https://apr.apache.org/ https://apr.apache.org/