[jandrewrogers]

Yes, a similar issue exists in C++ too when managing some types of resources in database kernels. Some types of resource management are a poor fit for idiomatic ("safe") resource management in C++. In that language, you always have the option of custom, non-idiomatic resource management -- everything you might want to do is always possible in principle. You avoid it to the extent practical but there are a few times when this kind of resource management is unambiguously the correct software design and engineering choice. It is a bit like "goto". Rarely used for good reason but there are times when any other implementation will be decidedly much worse.

I've hashed this out extensively when looking at implementing a database kernel in Rust (I’ve had Rust experts among my C++ programmers). Technically it is possible to implement these things in a safe way in both C++ and Rust. However, it comes at a cost of an unreasonably complex and inefficient software architecture in either language, so you would not want to actually do it that way in a sane code base.