Manual memory in C++ is so cumbersome that is efectively imposible to develop programs with no memory leak bugs in real life.
Anyway, the more important fact about C++ is that it is a language complicated to no end, with an insanely bad design on purpose, so a couple of guys can sell consulting services, write books, and the like.
The year 2015 is about to come, let's just stop filling the world with such primitive and ugly ugly code. We have saner alternatives to C++ since ever.