alt Hacker News>"this is how the resource is acquired, this is how the resource will be freed later"
Lovely fairy tale. Now can you tell me how you love to scroll back and examine all the defer blocks within a scope when it ends to understand what happens at that point?
I don't typically do that. In 99.999% of cases, 'defer free(something)' was done because it's the correct thing to do at every exit point, so I don't need to think about it at the end of the block.