...tracing with error codes can be slow.

RAII can be slow.

You can have exceptions...

...manage your own memory. And to use RAII you had write lots of verbose class...

...on smart pointers can be done with RAII and reference counting, and the dips already...

...sufficient to distinguish GC, reference counted and RAII objects. And it would also allow D...

People doing manual memory management without RAII deserve the codebase complexity  they get.

As noted...

...cases of RAII in C++. If you cannot do it in a RAII-fashion in...

...There is no language construct to use RAII or heap application on objects. We had...

...however.

This system can be implemented using RAII: pointers returned from memory allocators like malloc...

...talking about here where you're using RAII without needing to actually put the object...

...constructor of any kind).

Whenever someone says "RAII doesn't work in D" it's...