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It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be? (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I may have missed the joke but C++ doesn't have built in garbage collector. Even recent versions of the standard merely allow it but don't specify it is required.

[โ€“] mkwt@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

People have written garbage collectors for C++, but just about no one used the standard library support that was in the standard.