[pron]

> Hidden functions aren't a big deal in practice.

Again, that's like me saying "forgetting defer isn't a big deal in practice." You seem to disagree with that and I disagree with your assertion. It's largely a matter of personal preference.

And no, except for some compile-time tests/assertions and a smattering of lambdas, we don't use most of "modern C++" (or almost any of std). Sometimes we need to emit hand-crafted machine code, and sometimes we may need to mess around with stack frames directly (which means we can't use destructors in those cases. We do use destructors a fair bit, but I personally soured on RAII some ten years ago.

[CyberDildonics]

Again, that's like me saying "forgetting defer isn't a big deal in practice."

It's the opposite, because for defer you need to be proactive and do it every time, but destructors are going to do the right thing and work, but if you question what's happening you can investigate.

One is happening automatically and already works, the other is manual and you always have to remember or your program is broken.

we don't use most of "modern C++"

You might want to try it out, it would probably help with all these misunderstandings.

[pron]

> It's the opposite, because for defer you need to be proactive and do it every time, but destructors are going to do the right thing and work

No, it's the opposite, because with defer you always see all the operations that are happening, while with destructors you have to be proactive and every time check what operations are done in your methods.

Look, I've used destructors a lot for many, many years (and still do, as it's not always up to me), they have pros and cons, some people really like them, some don't, and it's okay. It's not like there's some universal truth here or empirical data that strongly favours one side over the other.

> You might want to try it out, it would probably help with all these misunderstandings.

Thank you for your suggestion, but being one of the most foundational pieces of C++ software in the world, I think we've got it covered.