[mort96]

If I'm gonna write RAII wrappers around every tiny little thing that I happen to need to call once... I might as well just use Rust and make the wrappers do FFI.

If I'm constructing a particular C object once in my entire code base, calling a couple functions on it, then freeing it, I'm not much more likely to get it right in the RAII wrapper than in the one place in my code base I do it manually. At least if I have tools like defer to help me.

[feelamee]

if you do it once - why do you care about "ugly" scope_exit? btw, writing such wrappers is easy and does not require a lot of code.

[mort96]

What do you mean with '"ugly" scope_exit'?

Do you mean why I care that I have to call the free function at every exit point of the scope? That's easy: because it's error prone. Defer is much less error prone.

[feelamee]

your words... > C++ implementations of defer are either really ugly

I agree with @pjmlp - you need to write wrappers around the C api.

But if you.. > If I'm gonna write RAII wrappers around every tiny little thing that I happen to need to call once

use them just once.. so, why care about ugliness, just write ugly code just once? Code can't be perfect.