>But there is no reason that the RAII pattern couldn't be completely orthogonal to memory management GC + destructors = very very messy even in languages built

>But there is no reason that the RAII pattern couldn't be completely orthogonal to memory management GC + destructors = very very messy even in languages built with GC in mind, kentonv described the whole non deterministic finalizers nicely but there are also other problems see here : http://ericlippert.com/2015/05/18/when-everything-you-know-is-wrong-part-one/ http://ericlippert.com/2015/05/18/when-everything-you-know-i...