Here is my opinion: **I want a vote**.

I understand the merits of style insensitivity and I've argued for these merits 
for multiple years now. I want to keep this short, so in summary, what it 
really boils down for me is:

  * **Educating newcomers about style insensitivity is and always will be a 
constant time drain.** I argue that removing this feature will save us all A 
LOT of time in the long run. Far more time than the feature's merits actually 
save me in development time.



I think I can safely say that everyone was sceptical when they first learned of 
style insensitivity. Yes, it isn't a problem, but it makes people hesitate. Nim 
has strong competition and it's already hard enough to sell a 
non-Google/Mozilla/Apple-backed language to someone. **I want Nim to be 
successful and I do fear that any obstacles to adoption will be the death of 
it.**

It would actually be in my interest to keep the style insensitivity, given that 
a change would deprecate some portions of my book.

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