But does a language with Python-like syntax really have to try to be so "beginner-friendly" that it enables inconsistent casing?
The language itself can't enforce better variable names, at least not this way - Nim doesn't stop me from using "abcd" or "a0, a1, ... a100" as variable names even though it's usually a very bad idea.
No, I think a language should help keeping the code consistent in the long term - and having this strange case insensitivity doesn't help there in my opinion.
> I think a language should help keeping the code consistent in the long term - and having this strange case insensitivity doesn't help there in my opinion.
Not at all. Style insensitivity encourages good variable naming and there are both formatters and also the simple text completion in editors to guarantee consistency.
The language itself can't enforce better variable names, at least not this way - Nim doesn't stop me from using "abcd" or "a0, a1, ... a100" as variable names even though it's usually a very bad idea.
No, I think a language should help keeping the code consistent in the long term - and having this strange case insensitivity doesn't help there in my opinion.