Defer is also hidden control flow. At the end of every block, you need to read backwards in the entire block to see if a defer was declared in order to determine where control will jump to. Please stop pretending that defer isn't hidden control flow.
> RAII has also proven to be quite harmful in cases
The downsides of defer are much worse than the "downsides" of RAII. Defer is manual and error-prone, something that you have to remember to do every single time.
> RAII has also proven to be quite harmful in cases
The downsides of defer are much worse than the "downsides" of RAII. Defer is manual and error-prone, something that you have to remember to do every single time.