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Why I like snake_case
- Ukv 4mo agoI do like snake_case but a lot of this feels a bit circular, effectively just saying that it's good because it's already used by the author's code and things it interacts with. I'd like kebab-case even more if it weren't for the annoying detail that `-` is also subtraction.
- rglover 4mo agoThat's why I made the point about consistency mattering more than taste/style here. My personal preference is toward snake_case, but if your own preference is kebab-case, as long as you're consistent, great.
- efortis 4mo agoMy workaround was a editing a font with a much longer space char and with a 1/3 of a space of left padding on uppercase letters. https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel The problem is that it looses tabular alignment, so I wrote an IDE plugin for tabularizing some blocks. https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye --- Similar to my font, emacs has a plugin that adds a little underscore. https://codelearn.me/2025/02/24/emacs-glasses-mode.html https://codelearn.me/2025/02/24/emacs-glasses-mode.html
- vunderba 4mo agoI’m partial to SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE mostly because it makes me giggle when I picture it.
- mac3n 4mo agoI've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.