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IMHO pointers (raw or smart) are barely necessary in modern C++. In many cases, references and standard library classes like
std::vector
do whatever pointers do, but without the manual memory management. I use pointers for interacting with C libraries and in HIP/CUDA. In "pure" C++ the only thing that comes to mind is storing objects of different derived classes in a vector.