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Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric by RodgerTheGreat on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:56PM (#41431099)
one of the strangest and most grep-hostile approaches to identifiers that I have ever observed is Nim ignoring both case and underscores in an effort to allow everyone to write code in their preferred style:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#partial-caseminusinsen...

Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric by uasi on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:13AM (#41431194)
Nim even provides a dedicated grep-like tool to search for identifiers regardless of the style https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html
Re:Greppability is an underrated code metric by planetis on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:36AM (#41434814)
And it works pretty well, coming from 6+ years of experience. It's not that strange if consider case insensitive filesystems and email addresses. But on the internet you only hear the opinion of the loudest minority.