Is it possible to introduce Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to C++?

Question

Objective C has introduced a technology called ARC to free the developer from the burden of memory management. It sounds great, I think C++ developers would be very happy if g++

Answer 1

C++ has the concept of Resource Allocation is Initialization(RAII) & intelligent use of this method saves you from explicit resource management.

C++ already provides shared_ptr which provides reference counting.

Also, there are a host of other Smart pointers which employ RAII to make your life easier in C++.