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I sure don't miss the footguns and raw boilerplate that is having a copy constructor, move constructor, copy assignment operator, move assignment operator, and destructor, per class.

Yes, you should avoid the manual memory management that necessitates writing them. But work with a team of developers fresh out of school and next thing you know your codebase will be brimming with this kind of busywork.



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