[pdimitar]

Judging by the downvotes I am getting (with zero explanation as to why), I'd say that many misunderstood the "good practices" part and took offence, as if I said there's only one good practice.

I was taught -- including at the start of my career when I used exclusively C/C++ (about 18.5y ago) -- to take care of all resources I was using and not rely on runtimes.

I understand and appreciate different usages but to me doing a proper cleanup was the sane default for most programmers. And that's all what I was saying.

Obviously, as one digs deeper in a specialised area where more and more efficiency is demanded then they have to reach for tools that most of us wouldn't normally. That's quite normal and was always interesting for me to read about.

[grayclhn]

I didn't downovte, but asides like, "sounds awful" and "nasty" definitely read as judgemental. Your other comments on this thread make you seem much more open minded than this one did.