[jayd16]

You make an interesting point. Has any language introduced a generic-resource-collector? You're not supposed to use deconstructors to clean up resources because you're left to the whims of the GC which is only concerned about memory.

Has anyone build a collector that tracks multiple types of resources an object might consume? It seems possible.

[jerf]

Erlang is probably the closest. The word you want to search for is "port". If it doesn't seem like it at first, keep reading. It's a very idiosyncratic take on the topic of you view it from this perspective because it isn't exactly their focus. But it does have a mechanism for collecting files, sockets, open pipes to other programs, and a number of other things. Not fully generic, though.