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Your problem is not with RAII, but with reference counting, which you correctly identified should be the last resort, not the default; at least for the applicat

Your problem is not with RAII, but with reference counting, which you correctly identified should be the last resort, not the default; at least for the applications typically written in C++.

Levitating 1y ago
Why should reference counting be a last resort?
- rurban 1y ago
  Because it's insanely slow, and doesn't support cyclic structures.
- gpderetta 1y ago
  ... in C++. Because, at least in C++, it is a bad, slow and inconvenient GC. If you want or need generalized GC there are significantly better languages for that.