@pitiK3U @r the first paper for a defer-like feature was around 2006/2007. It is 2026.

Resource management has been a huge problem in C for decades, even before that. We have been warned repeatedly that certain language constructs and paradigms are lacking, and we told them the standard is fine, we just need more linters and checkers and analyzers.

I think we are past the event horizon for these problems now, and have been for quite some time.