The sad reality is that when you look at the files being requested, it’s usually scrapers looking for exploits.

When you bring threads into it, these exotic features make more sense. I have been doing single-threaded stuff for the most part.

I just never learned smart pointers and write C++ code like it’s C for aesthetic reasons.

I’ve been using C++ almost daily for the past 7 years and I haven’t found a use for shared_ptr, unique_ptr, etc. At what point does one stop being a noob?