> doesn't mean you should start using RAII I agree with your overall point, but I feel like RAII is practically the key feature that C++ provides over C (: Or

> doesn't mean you should start using RAII I agree with your overall point, but I feel like RAII is practically the key feature that C++ provides over C (: Or at any rate, I wouldn't say it is anything to do with "modern C++". It was there from the beginning, and C++'s object lifetime rules are pretty core to the language IMO. I'm curious, since you phrased it that way: what C++ feature(s) do you tend to reach for first, when moving from C to C++?