RAII is of course great but any language with a GC and proper exception handling can handle resources safely. Eg look at Java's try-with-resources statement whi

RAII is of course great but any language with a GC and proper exception handling can handle resources safely. Eg look at Java's try-with-resources statement which guarantees that the resource will be disposed safely if an exception is raised: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/tryResourceClose.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions... You can build up quite resilient and resource-safe systems using these basic building blocks.