[Zababa]

> if you can't manage your own memory, you should be using a language implementation with automatic memory management.

I agree, and would expand the idea to all kinds of resources (files for example). Sadly not many languages have "automatic resource management". For example Go has automatic memory management, but if you read an HTTP request's body you have to remember to call req.Body.Close(). If you open a file you have to call file.Close(). If you launch a goroutine, you have to think about when it's going to end.

I'd like to know if some languages manage to automatically managed resources, and how they do it.

[kwhitefoot]

C# has Using. When the block ends the destructor is called.

VB Classic has reference counting and the terminate event is fired when the count goes to zero. So as long as you don't store the reference in a global the terminate event is guaranteed to run when it goes out of scope (so long as you don't have circular references of course).

C++ has Resource acquisition is initialization (RAII)