Why I like snake_case

2 points | by rglover an hour ago

3 comments

  • efortis an hour ago

    My 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

    The problem is that it looses tabular alignment, so I wrote an IDE plugin for tabularizing some blocks.

    https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye

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    Similar to my font, emacs has a plugin that adds a little underscore.

    https://codelearn.me/2025/02/24/emacs-glasses-mode.html

  • Ukv an hour ago

    I 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 an hour ago

      That'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.