Sure you can do this, but the point is that it's all manual and always will be because you get no help from the compiler. Compare in C++ where you can have hi

Sure you can do this, but the point is that it's all manual and always will be because you get no help from the compiler. Compare in C++ where you can have higher level types and compiler helpfully provides features that let the programmer do stuff such as RAII or unique_ptr. Huge difference.