You might think so, but Nim had to backtrack some on case insensitivity because it removes a very useful way to distinguish between types and things of that typ

You might think so, but Nim had to backtrack some on case insensitivity because it removes a very useful way to distinguish between types and things of that type ... so now the first character of a symbol is case-sensitive and the rest is not. If starting from scratch, as you suggest, I think most people would go for complete case sensitivity instead of Nim's now partial sensitivity. And the OP is also referring to Nim's "interesting experiment" of being agnostic between snake_case and CamelCase ... SnakeCase and Camel_case are matching symbols ... but notice how the case-sensitivity kind of kills the whole notion of agnosticism about snake_case. It's experience with this experiment that makes it pretty clear that it was not a good idea.