In C++, shared_ptr and similar "smart pointer" concepts are very similar to ARC. The key difference is it's a library feature, built atop destructors and copy-constructors, and not a language change like ARC.
Microsoft's C++/CX introduced in 2011 is also very similar; the hat syntax[1] is to COM's AddRef/Release as ARC is to -retain/-release. In both schemes, what used to be manually refcounted objects are now managed by the compiler. I don't recommend C++/CX though, it is confusing to C++ devs. Smart pointers are a better recognized idiom.
[1] Unrelated to the hat syntax from MS's previous attempts, Managed C++ and C++/CLI, which are GC and not refcounting as in C++/CX.
Microsoft's C++/CX introduced in 2011 is also very similar; the hat syntax[1] is to COM's AddRef/Release as ARC is to -retain/-release. In both schemes, what used to be manually refcounted objects are now managed by the compiler. I don't recommend C++/CX though, it is confusing to C++ devs. Smart pointers are a better recognized idiom.
[1] Unrelated to the hat syntax from MS's previous attempts, Managed C++ and C++/CLI, which are GC and not refcounting as in C++/CX.