Comment by fauigerzigerk
4 years ago
Yes, but these features are usually optional. Library users can easily forget to use them and neither library authors nor the compiler can do anything to enforce it.
The brilliant thing about RAAI style resource management is that library authors can define what happens at the end of an object's lifetime and the Rust compiler enforces the use of lifetimes.
I agree that RAII is superior, but it’s not true that compilers and library authors can’t do anything to enforce proper usage of Drop-able types in GC’d languages. C# has compiler extensions that verify IDisposables are used with the using statement, for example. Granted, this becomes a problem once you start writing functions that pass around disposable types.