Is anyone using finalizers to detect resource leaks?

Technical Discussion
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This blog article proposes the following example:

package db 

func Open(path string, flags OpenFlags) (*Conn, error) {     
// ...

	runtime.SetFinalizer(conn, func(conn *Conn) {
	     panic("open db connection never closed")
    })
    return conn, nil
}

func (c *Conn) Close() {
    // ...
    runtime.SetFinalizer(conn, nil) // clear finalizer
}

Does this make sense, in order to ensure that some important resources are actually being closed ?

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