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Which it is not. It is harder to forget it, but it's possible.

• oconnor663 5y ago
  For what it's worth, I think it makes sense to include defer in the "automatic cleanup" category. If we don't, then I think we end up suggesting that the only popular languages that support automatic cleanup for anything other than memory are C++ and Rust. That does have some truth to it, but if the goal is to describe "languages that are viable today", it seems pretty clear that e.g. Python and Go are viable.
• sirwhinesalot 5y ago
  True but most languages need something like it to manage non-memory resources. Stuff like Python's with block or C#'s using block. So Zig is on par with those for non-memory stuff and much much better than C. Having everything accept an allocator also makes managing memory a lot simpler since you can use a simple arena allocator for temporary heap allocations.