Very similar but not the same. try-with-resources is essentially a "hack" that tries to emulate what I described (and it mostly succeeds with it). That way, the

Very similar but not the same. try-with-resources is essentially a "hack" that tries to emulate what I described (and it mostly succeeds with it). That way, the ecosystem doesn't have to be changed. "My" solution requires that libraries use/support this pattern, and it also requires the language to have nice syntax, something that Java isn't very good at.