Smart is the key. You can use a raw pointer, but that doesn't tell or enforce anything about lifetime. How long will that pointer be valid - can I save it to a class member - we don't know.

C++ gives you more more things, but none of them are enforced. (I'm sure Rust wants those same things at time - but since I'm not aware of anyone with any ideas how to enforce them so Rust has decided to not allow those - a reasonable choice overall, but sometimes annoying when it means you can't do something that you "know" is correct just because it can't be proved correct in the language)

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mgaunard 2 days ago | parent [-]

It remains a requirement, whether it is enforced or not.

Valid programs don't need guardrails, since you need to satisfy those requirements for the program to be valid in the first place.

	▲	bluGill 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Humans have a bad history of getting things right without the guardrails. We know how to do it, but there often is one code path we didn't think about correctly - we may get it right 99.99% of the time, but that leaves a lot of mistakes in the code. I want guard rails to ensure that I got everything right, not just 99.99% of the cases right.