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Casey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer
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Casey Muratori argues against smart pointers and RAII, advocating grouped-element thinking, zero-is-initialization and stubs as better ways to structure memory and handle errors.
HN commenters in memory management and language design threads cite it as the best explanation of group lifetimes versus per-object ownership.
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