[Doradus]

RAII is using one C++ misfeature (destructors) to work around another misfeature (inability to do cleanup when leaving a lexical scope). Go has a far more elegant solution to the latter; if you're not familiar with the defer statement, check it out.

[strictfp]

Eh, defer is more similar to javas try-with-resources or C#:s using, who both put the burden on the user of the object and cannot handle recursive cleanup (cleanup of trees). So I consider it much worse than destructors.

[stormbrew]

Except that deterministic destruction is actually a feature that enables cleanup when leaving a scope. Manually peppering your code with defer statements is often doing work a computer can do better than you can.