ARC, worth it or not?

Question

When I moved to Objective C (iOS) from C++ (and little Java) I had hard time understanding memory management in iOS. But now all this seems natural and I know retain, autoreleas

Answer 1

Watch the WWDC video on ARC: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/?id=323

Apple's official stance in that video is that all apps that can use ARC should use ARC. The video goes into why, and is an excellent overview of the technology, so I'm not going to repeat it all here.