...all the manual RAII rubbish required because C has no support for RAII.


I suspect...

...and no support for ideas such as RAII unless the programmer implements it themselves. Use...

...t really work for RAII-like resource management. If you want RAII-like behavior, either...

...the same that C++ has for its RAII classes/structs.

An inherited type includes (contains...

Bingo. This is why RAII needs to be mentioned, otherwise this DIP is not necessary.

...that this DIP enables. Here is a RAII @nogc dynamic array that can be appended...

...the same. Since RAII is irrelevant to the issue, adding an RAII object would only...

...example. Showing an implementation using a common RAII pattern to illustrate why it isn't...

...Lifetime parameters to structs?

Rust does have RAII, though. In fact, containers like Vec<T...

...to do with RAII, and thinking about it in terms of RAII will miss the...