TBF the essay is rather strangely structured, the entire two thirds of the essay covering constructors and overloading has only ancillary relevance to the actual problem, Rust has neither and does RAII just fine after all (though it does have name mangling).
The author even acknowledges halfway through that it’s basically a strawman:
> It’s not a bad argument; after all, the entire above argument hinges on the idea of stealing from C++ entirely and copying their semantics bit-for-bit.
To me, only after that does it engage with the underlying concept in a way which is engaging and convincing. But you’ve had to trawl through 2500 words to get to that point.
The author even acknowledges halfway through that it’s basically a strawman:
> It’s not a bad argument; after all, the entire above argument hinges on the idea of stealing from C++ entirely and copying their semantics bit-for-bit.
To me, only after that does it engage with the underlying concept in a way which is engaging and convincing. But you’ve had to trawl through 2500 words to get to that point.