Comment by mpyne

> In fact, using raw pointers in C++ is not a good idea, at least IMO

Not just your opinion; it's become the "standard of practice" in the C++ development community.

They're trying to get it that between STL, make_shared, C++14's make_unique, etc., that you won't actually be using "naked new"s in any but the rarest cases. For the rest of memory management you'd use types to describe the ownership semantics and let the compiler handle the rest.