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

One of the reasons C++ is used at all is full control over memory management. If you don't want that in a particular situation there are smart pointers to do the managing for you.

Managed memory solutions exist, but in the situation C++ is chosen rightfully (for large-scale big applications), it is not a viable option.