[rualca]

> It may seem like a design mistake at first glance but it’s surprisingly useful. > It’s intent is to allow a given codebase to maintain a consistent style (eg camel vs snake) even when making use of upstream libraries that use different styles.

That doesn't sound right at all. It sounds like a design choice aimed at achieving the exact opposite: inconsistency without any positive tradeoff in return.

> Not including the first letter avoids most of the annoyance of wantonly mixing all cap constants or lower case and linters avoid teams mismatching internal styles.

That does not sound right at all. At most, it sounds like the compiler does not throw errors when stumbling on what would otherwise be syntax errors, but you still have all the mismatches in internal styles and linters complaining about code and teams wasting time with internal piss matches, and more importantly a way to foster completely futile nitpicking discussions within a language community.