Indeed I too find this off-putting. I understand the rationale behind it, but developers are used to extreme attention to detail, and this discards an important aspect of detail in the important area of naming.
>It allows programmers to mostly use their own preferred spelling style, be it humpStyle or snake_style
It's interesting that some languages, like Go, are specifically designed to avoid it (there's a built-in formatting tool for a single coding convention), while in other languages having a zoo of different styles is viewed as a great idea and the language is designed for it. Or is it about linking with existing C libraries? In that case, I'd introduce some sort of name mapping via attributes/annotations as a whitelist, instead of allowing this behavior by default.
It's interesting that some languages, like Go, are specifically designed to avoid it (there's a built-in formatting tool for a single coding convention), while in other languages having a zoo of different styles is viewed as a great idea and the language is designed for it. Or is it about linking with existing C libraries? In that case, I'd introduce some sort of name mapping via attributes/annotations as a whitelist, instead of allowing this behavior by default.