Why I like snake_case

I've always disliked snake-case. Maybe it's because the teletype backarrow would have been a more useful character than underscore, but it got replaced by underscore sometime in the 1960s.

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

I’m partial to SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE mostly because it makes me giggle when I picture it.

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.