Some people who use C don't want a destructor like feature for performance reasons. They would prefer everything is cleaned up in some global context rather tha

Some people who use C don't want a destructor like feature for performance reasons. They would prefer everything is cleaned up in some global context rather than each object in a chain of stack frames having to clean themselves up when an error somewhere buried deep in code. I don't have any benchmarks because I don't work on low level code all day, but apparently it can be slow enough that it puts people off using destructors. This isn't a joke. In fact, some people will not use new/delete. Some people will also go further and not even use malloc but prefer to use the syscalls for getting a block of memory directly from the operating system and managing it completely themselves. These are usually the people who don't use the standard library/libc.