"doing almost everything right to become essential infrastructure, but will need to add some equivalent of destructors to get there." To be fair, if we come ba

"doing almost everything right to become essential infrastructure, but will need to add some equivalent of destructors to get there." To be fair, if we come back to this opening argument, I'm still wondering how strong the premise here is? Are destructors in fact essential to essential infrastructure as you claim in your view? I'm not sure that I'm convinced by the case as you've presented it so far. I don't think we need to look too far to find counter-examples of essential infrastructure with the highest levels of safety that achieve this safety without destructors, and where destructors would be precluded by the safety model. Also, as someone who's done a fair amount of security work, the timing safe argument against hidden control flow is at least compelling and something to explore and not ignore out of hand. If a language design can make crypto simpler and safer to implement correctly, then I would say that's already a good indication of what the language may be able to do for less complex domains.