[OT] Swift removing minor features to piss me off

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 18:53:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> grrr... and they removed C-style for statements (i.e. for(;;))

I can understand wanting to remove bad ideas, but 1) removing 
something this fundamental to the language and 2) removing 
something that not only doesn't lead to bad code and has 
technical merits makes this completely baffling and unacceptable.

Looking at the proposal to remove it, 
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0007-remove-c-style-for-loops.md, if you read between the lines it seems the main reason they wanted to remove it was to reduce the need for ++ and --.