RAII gives you only static, scope-based lifetimes. These are not sufficient in itself for every kind of application. With that said, C++ is a low-level language

RAII gives you only static, scope-based lifetimes. These are not sufficient in itself for every kind of application. With that said, C++ is a low-level language with manual memory management, so you can do whatever, an unused GC is indeed good riddance.