[OT] Swift removing minor features to piss me off

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 April 2016 at 03:44:47 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> Not surprised. Removing features is all the rage in the 
> software world these days. This is one fad I can't wait to see 
> die. Hopefully this one won't drag on as ridiculously log as 
> pants-sagging did, but I'm not holding my breath.
>
> I say forget playing the "fire and motion" game. Just avoid the 
> big five "our way-of-the-week or the highway" trend-factories 
> (Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft and Gnome) and everything 
> should be (relatively) fine.

Actually, I did a bit of Java 8 programming recently and although 
I would complain about Java developing ridiculously slowly as a 
language (e.g. lambda support), I found that it is refreshingly 
conservative :-) Yes, there are loops, semicolons and operators, 
just like granny used to make them!

I'm glad Steve posted this here, because whenever a new fancy 
"must have" language is promoted, my attitude is: lay back, relax 
and watch it calmly. First Go and Rust, now Swift. We'll see. So 
far D has served me well.