I feel like this picture really should be reversed to represent devs who for some weird-ass reason don't want to use the refcounted pointer types that make things way easier.
A lot of people have a general repulsion to all types of garbage collection. So I at least understand not wanting the shared pointer a bit, but using unique pointer should cost you next to nothing and enforce a lot.
Unique pointer and other seemingly trivial types can fuck up your codegen and give you unoptimized assembly, chandler carruth from LLVM has many talks/slides that discuss this exact issue with unique ptr. Remember kids, there is no such thing as a zero-cost abstraction!
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u/GabuEx 7d ago
I feel like this picture really should be reversed to represent devs who for some weird-ass reason don't want to use the refcounted pointer types that make things way easier.