Are there any valid use cases to use new and delete, raw pointers or c-style arrays with modern C++?

Question

Here\'s a notable video (Stop teaching C) about that paradigm change to take in teaching the c++ language.

And an also notable blog post

Answer 1

You sometimes have to call new when using private constructors.

Say you decide to have a private constructor for a type that is intended to be called by a friend factory or an explicit create method. You can call new inside this factory but make_unique won't work.