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Let's discuss RAII in C, and why nobody's getting it right with the increasingly "simple" juggling that keeps getting tossed to me like table scraps for a dog.
The Pasture | Why Not Just Do Simple C++ RAII in C? | https://thephd.dev/just-put-raii-in-c-bro-please-bro-just-one-more-destructor-bro-cmon-im-good-for-it
It would be neat if there was a syntax to get a chunk of memory that got automatically freed when exiting the current code block. Bonus point if it used the same syntax for heap and stack allocation. As far as I know, c++ can't do that last bit either.
Good read!
The "But what about copying" section had me thinking "what if we just enforced the rule of 3" but at some point I feel like it'd just be reinventing C++...
I stay in this industry because it keeps me humble 🫠.
The utterly pervasive and constant feeling that a lot of people – way too many people – are really trying to invent these things from first principles and pretend like they were the first people to ever conceive of these ideas… it feels pretty miserable, all things considered. Going through life evaluating effectively no prior art in other languages, domains, C codebases as they exist today, just… anything.
i've noticed this about libraries and projects far away from here. there's a powerful reticence to admit the existence of predecessors or inspirations, except perhaps to position themselves as the spiritual successor to a belpved something that's now stone dead. one wonders how much of this is (or is kneejerk habit left over from) wanting to avoid those inspirations butting in for royalties that steal the profits they were hoping to get with their little endeavor.
also of course there's the potential options that it's either laziness, or sheer love of the game. philosophizing your ideas from the ether is the fun part, maybe reckoning that with history simply isn't.
deep garbage collection (D)
D uses both GC and RAII. Destructors are called both for value types and for scoped reference types.
