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It’s still difficult to get right in cases where you hold a disposable as a member. Its not obvious if disposables passed in also get disposed and what’s right depends on the situation (think a string based TextWriter getting passed in a byte-based Stream) and you will need to handle double disposes.

Further C# has destructors that get used as a last resort effort on native resources like file descriptors.



> Further C# has destructors that get used as a last resort effort on native resources like file descriptors.

True, I was going to mention that, but I saw that JS also has "finalization registries", which seem to provide finalizer support in JS, so I figured it wasn't a fundamental difference.




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