[golergka]

`finally` introduces additional blocks, so if you have 5 different resources that you acquire as your function goes along, you end up with 5 levels of curly braces. Not very elegant.

`defer`, on the other hand, is probably the only thing I wanted to take from Go to other languages I worked with. Beautifully explicit and wonderfully useful.

[shhsshs]

C#’s new syntax for `using` also helps:

Old:

    using (var file = OpenFile())
    {
        // use file
    }

New:

    using var file = OpenFile();
    // file will be disposed when it goes out of scope

[earthboundkid]

> `finally` introduces additional blocks

It would be cool if someone made a way to scope variables at the function level in JavaScript instead of at the block level. I might write a transpiler for it…

[golergka]

I've never considered writing a proposal for a language feature before, but after 2 minutes of googling, this actually looks completely doable:

https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

So, impostor syndrome aside, why not? Wanna team up on that?

[earthboundkid]

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[golergka]

Okay, it was 2am here and I must have misread your comment and lost the 'variables' part.

[jakopo87]

It is already possible: var makes a variable function-scoped, let/const makes a variable block-scoped. Or are you referring to something else?