In Rust you could likely make a pair of macros that does this RAII setup. And because you’d explicitly need to import the macro, it’s evident and traceable what

In Rust you could likely make a pair of macros that does this RAII setup. And because you’d explicitly need to import the macro, it’s evident and traceable what’s going on - no Rails-like magic, which the OP rejection is IMO right to avoid. I think Go sometimes swings too far in the simplicity direction, not letting consenting folks choose to use shorthand, but that’s a very valid design decision.