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The point of the article isn't that single-threaded non-atomic shared pointers are unfeasible in C++, it is that their usage is too dangerous.

The fact that it wasn't included in the standard library for this reason is an argument for this. The fact that even `shared_ptr` has thread-safety footguns, one of which made it to the famous C++ talk, “Curiously Recurring C++ Bugs at Facebook”[1], is another. By the way, every single of the bugs from that talk is impossible in safe Rust.

[1]: https://youtu.be/lkgszkPnV8g?si=cCWASihvIGJ25Jf3



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