Side note: Adapting to a libraries style _can_ also been as an advantage 
("Obviously code from elsewhere").

In fact, almost all of those questions _can_ be seen this or that way.

Based on some decades experience I can't remember having felt that some 
libraries naming convention was problematic for me.

If we want freedom - and I guess close to 100% want freedom - then diverse 
styles are a price we shouldn't be too concerned about.

What is beyond personal taste and styles, however, is that whatever (in terms 
of style) we write, a compiler should never ever change it behind our back. The 
compiler may complain, say about a leading underscore, if a language doesn't 
allow it but it must change anything.

Btw. I know the underscore already as (typ.) "digit triples separator" from Ada 
and love it. But those are (numerical) literals and not identifiers and 
"changing" those '_' (ignoring them) in literals is OK and a different matter.

Btw.2 My own experience with non/not yet Nim users is that they find style 
insensitivity exotic, weird, and sometimes funny. I've yet to see a colleague 
to _like_ it and to consider it as advantageous (for the sake of fairness: my 
group probably does not represent the general developer community)

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