News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#. Parent comment

Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# by spankalee on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @01:28PM (#47251714)
It's so uncomfortable to read.

Why do people do this? They capitalize names, so clearly their shift key works. Do they do it feel special or like some sort of rebel?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# by trashface on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:53PM (#47252902)
Maybe they drafted it on a phone where capitalization is harder. My guess is the all-lowercase world is mostly people who do most of their text creation on phones and similar, not keyboards.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# by layer8 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:01PM (#47253014)
I don’t really see how capitalization is harder on phones, I do it all the time.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# by chii on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:05AM (#47261690)
if you turned on the autocorrects and spell checks etc, would automatically capitalize your sentences. Even when you don't want them to!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# by gfody on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:28AM (#47258255)
some folks prefer the aesthetic of lowercase and find capitalization unnecessary and ugly
[ Parent | on HN ]