Understanding Automatic Reference Counting in Objective-C

There's a good conversation here about dealing with objects inside structs, which is discouraged in ARC: <a href="http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/310392-struct-and-unsafe-unretained.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/310392-struct-and-...</a>

I was hesitant to try ARC at first - all of the tutorials I saw started with storyboards, which was terrible nonsense, and I wrongly equated that to ARC. I still think about where my pointers are, I'm just writing less code now and I love it. ARC's very, very nice.

Understanding memory management, and how things work "backstage" is always good but implementing it it's boring and very error-prone. Let's just use ARC, it's ready and it works amazingly well.

The page states that ARC is not yet ready, but keep in mind this article was written in Sept 2011.<p>I think ARC is definitely ready nowadays, given the number of libraries and projects using it.