Comment by thayne
11 days ago
It's more than that. Smart pointer help, but there are cases where even when using smart pointers you can encounter memory safety issues. Especially when you need to interact with c or older c++ code that doesn't use smart pointers. And smart pointers don't provide any protection against data races in multi-threaded code, like rust does.
smart pointers solve a different problem than data races
That's my point. C++ doesn't have an equivalent of rust's protections around Send and Sync.
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