and yet, "new" and "delete" are amongst the very first things covered in every C++ tutorial book. for example in Stroustrup's "A tour of C++", it's covered in

and yet, "new" and "delete" are amongst the very first things covered in every C++ tutorial book. for example in Stroustrup's "A tour of C++", it's covered in section 1.6. without any remark about shared_ptr and friends.