You risk confusing and annoying other people who read your code if you do follow convention also. I hate camelCase just as much in languages where it is custom

You risk confusing and annoying other people who read your code if you do follow convention also. I hate camelCase just as much in languages where it is customary as I do any other time. It is just a question of how many people you expect to annoy, which is precisely choosing it by popularity.