You absolutely can. Heap allocation for every component is already unneccesary, but loose pointers on top of that is a huge red flag. This seems like someone w

You absolutely can. Heap allocation for every component is already unneccesary, but loose pointers on top of that is a huge red flag. This seems like someone who isn't up to date with the most elegant and fastest ways to write C++. Charging money on top of that is egregious, not to mention that there are lots of great GUI libraries already. FLTK, Juce, Qt to name a few.