I used to really struggle with memory leaks in C++, until smart pointers came along. I think the only leak I've investigated since then wound up being an actual

I used to really struggle with memory leaks in C++, until smart pointers came along. I think the only leak I've investigated since then wound up being an actual bug in the MSVC standard library. OS handles and such are still an issue, but you can wrap them too. Thank goodness for RAII, a fantastic reason to use C++ even if you're otherwise writing C-like code.