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> Just use your allocators with malloc/free, that is what i do (you do the same in zig, allocators)

If you do that, is it RAII like C++/Rust? Objects get destructed at end of scope, and members get destructed recursively? Or do you have to manually call `free()` on everything? (which, granted, is significantly easier in languages with `defer` mechanisms)

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D has defer

    scope(exit):
    scope(failure):
    scope(success):

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/scope-guards

You can do RAII with D too, it's your choice, based on your use case

Yes, it is RAII and RAII is fully implemented in D.

But only for structs.

We really need to get actual reference counting into the language to cover classes properly as well.

It has been on my todo list to write a DIP for this for a while now. ~rikki.

Class instances can go on the stack too using `scope`:

  scope obj = new Object;
  ...
  // destroyed at end of scope

RAII, though there is also `scope(exit)`

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