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Much like the choice to stop using language features like capitalization, it’s part of the current cultural trend.

Kinda like Buildly or Buildr. It’s cool until it’s your turn to be old. Then you look back and wince.

I've been using no capitalization on short messages in chat for more than 20 years (and still do), but an entire article written in the style makes it harder to read. It's funny that the author believes in syntax highlighting for code readability but not capitalization for English readability.

> but an entire article written in the style makes it harder to read

That's purely a familiarity effect; it's a self-solving problem.

Perhaps I'd become effortlessly fluent in Aramaic if I had to read enough articles in it, but absent some substantial benefit I'd prefer to keep with standard English.

You would, but it would take a while. Reading slightly different letter forms is more of a matter of hours.

> it’s part of the current cultural trend

Is it, or it's just a niche just like people who write 5 digit years, putting a 0 in front?

It's still very rare to encounter any of those.

Those people are so short sighted. I put two 0's in front because I really care about humanity. This, I believe, will help fix climate change. Excuse me while I sniff my own farts.

Is it a current trend? my Mom does this and she picked it up in the 70's on typewriters.

I mean "buildah" is at least searchable (imagine trying to look for a build tool called "builder"). The lack of capitalization doesn't have any positive side-effects, apart from saving your shift key some use..

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