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Re:Ask HN: Why do langs with alleged “automatic memory manag... by Someone on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:22PM (#20475233)
Memory is a resource, too, and C++-style destructors do manage it, sometimes.

Destructors do not free the memory of the object being destroyed, but they can free memory that its fields point to.

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