> And because in GC languages we don’t often have a destructor (or anything like it), it’s very common for people to forget to clean up resources. (Eg filesyste

> And because in GC languages we don’t often have a destructor (or anything like it), it’s very common for people to forget to clean up resources. (Eg filesystem handles, sockets, wasm object references, and so on). > One weird thing about rust is that network sockets and file handles are automatically closed when the handle drops out of scope. The borrow checker takes care of that. If you do the same thing in JavaScript (open a socket then do nothing), the program won’t even quit on its own and you’ll have no idea why. That’s not an inherent problem of GC. You can have linear types or destructors in a GC language.