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Not the parent but my personal pet-peeve is case-insensitive variable names - a deal breaker for me.

> "That means only the first letters are compared in a case sensitive manner. Other letters are compared case insensitively within the ASCII range and underscores are ignored." [1]

Wow, this is strange. I understand the reasoning but strongly disagree with it. Not sure if it's a deal-breaker for me though, just... strange.

[1]: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...

It definitely doesn't exist in any other language, so from that perspective it is strange. But please give Nim a try before closing the web page because of this feature.

Yeah like I said before, it's not necessarily a show-stopper, it just threw me off.

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