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I never have trouble with memory management in C by sticking to "grouped element architectures" with explicit lifetimes such as arenas, scratch allocators, dynamic pools, etc. RAII is mostly for "single element architectures" which IMO are not a good way to organize code because they tend to amount to thousands of unnecessary memory operations.

You can do RAII in C. You still have to define a dtor function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

Is "dtor" shorthand for destructor?

Yes, just like ctor is constructor.

Yes! You got it.

I am aware of this "non-standard" extension. My comment was w.r.t sticking to the standard.

Yeah, I feel like “C in a C++ Compiler” is a respectable decision for reasons similar to what you describe.