[OT] Swift removing minor features to piss me off

[Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 18:49:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> 1. Swift 3 will no longer allow mutable variables as 
> parameters. Instead, your parameters will be immutable, or 
> reference (inout). To fix this, you can assign your immutable 
> variable to a mutable one (immutability is always head 
> immutability in swift), or put this weird statement in your 
> function:
>
> var i = i

Seems reasonable given that code could mutate a variable 
accidentally, e.g. due to a typo.

> 2. Swift 3 will no longer accept ++. You must write += 1.

For a new language, fine, but (assuming increment is a statement 
not an expression) removing this and C for probably isn't worth 
the annoyance.