You're most likely to hear it from kernel programmers and Go/Zig/Odin advocates, but it rarely comes up as a criticism of C++ in particular. Perhaps that's beca

You're most likely to hear it from kernel programmers and Go/Zig/Odin advocates, but it rarely comes up as a criticism of C++ in particular. Perhaps that's because RAII is merely "distasteful" in that cohort, whereas there are many other qualities of C++ that might be considered total showstoppers for adoption before matters of taste are ever on the table. There was an HN thread a few months ago[0] debating whether RAII is reason enough to disqualify Rust as a systems language, with some strong opinions in both directions. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291417