Zig defer Patterns Mar 21, 2024 A short note about some unexpected usages of Zig’s defer statement. This post assumes that you already know the basics about RAII, defer and errdefer. While discussing the differences between them is not the point, I will allow myself one high level comment. I don’t like defer as a replacement for RAII: after writing Zig for some time, I am relatively confident that humans are just not good at not forgetting defers, especially when “optional” ownership transfer is...