Pointers make programming easier. Here's how.
Pointers help make programming easier. They provide the ability to control whether data is passed by reference or passed by value, but their true potential starts to show when debugging complex issues, especially around mutable state. Having your pointers in code makes it immediately clear how a value is being passed to a scope and you can easily understand that when I am modifying that value, it's effecting the value from the calling scope, too.