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But why do they have to use camelCase? I don't know why it bothers me so, but I see that in a language or a repo and immediately and irrationally despise it. I

• tachyonbeam 7y ago
  Camel case is extremely common, but it's funny that they use it given that the language is case insensitive: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#why-is-it-caseunderscore-insensitive https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#why-is-i... Sidenote: not a Nim user, but this seems like it could get in the way of interoperability with C (and most other languages)?
  • PMunch 7y ago
    Not really, when you want to import things from C you simply name them what you like and then you can call them in a case-insensitive fashion. When writing code that should be imported into C code it will either have its name exactly as typed, or you can specify a name for it yourself.
• xena 7y ago
  Nim is style insensitive, so `foo_bar`, `foobar` and `fooBar` all resolve to the same symbol. However, `Foobar` won't.
• hota_mazi 7y ago
  More of a personal preference, but to me, typing all these underscores all the time would probably give me carpal tunnel syndrome within just a few years.
• PMunch 7y ago
  As other have mentioned Nim is style insensitive. This might sound odd at first, but it allows you to use snake_case in your code even though the standard library is camelCase. It also allows me to use your snake_case library in my camelCase code without ending up in mixed_Case hell like you often end up in Python.