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		jandrewrogers 74 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world ... This still raises the question of why Arc is purportedly used so heavily. I've written 100s of kLoC of modern systems C++ and never needed std::shared_ptr.

pjmlp 74 days ago [–]

For the same reason Unreal uses one.

Large scale teams always get pointer ownership wrong.

Project Zero has enough examples.

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