shared_ptr<int> a = make_shared<int>(10);

What's so hard about managing that? shared_ptr is basically equivalent to Python garbage collection.

Shared_ptr were standardized in 2003, and Microsoft implemented CComPtr<> way back in the 90s for this easy to use reference-counted smart-pointer concept.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa266806%28v=vs.60%2...

So... yeah. Stop doing manual memory management in C++. Something better has existed... since the 90s.

So how about you criticize something in C++ that wasn't solved at least 16 years ago?