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did you check the header of that cpp? they are storing it in a shared_ptr: shared_ptr = referenced counted pointer = RAII

they should have used make_shared, but it is still safe

Which isn't exception safe, as any good C++ developer would know.

"Google Does Bad Thing" is not quite equivalent to "C++ Is Bad Language"

Indeed, it is even one of my favourite languages, but contradicts the OP's point of every industry C++ codebase has banned new and delete.

The Google C++ style guide alone is sufficient evidence to conclude that Google doesn't know how to do C++ properly.

Yet they are one of the major contributors to ISO C++ and LLVM, what gives?

It just means that they still derive value from C++. But I, for one, am very glad that they're not a dominant force in the ISO standard committee.

In a word, not.