Just to argue against there being no benefit, I have a cognitive impairment that occasionally puts me in an altered state, a delirium to varying degrees. camelCase is much more difficult to read at that point, so I can get confused ridiculously easily. I tend leave a bunch of comments and then step away, but sometimes I can work well through it; things like horrendous variable names/regexs will throw me. I default to snake_case but compile over when I share the code.
This is my unique situation and predilection to being able to read one form more easily than another, but it does indeed help me.
I can back away from those while leaving the tabs open and be not too confused coming back, not having temporarily broken them. When I'm in the middle of refactoring especially though, getting a seizure and trying to back away without jumbling the house of cards is a lot easier with whatever pattern recognition I have around snake_case.
Edit: curious, have a preference besides consistency for cases?
Just to argue against there being no benefit, I have a cognitive impairment that occasionally puts me in an altered state, a delirium to varying degrees. camelCase is much more difficult to read at that point, so I can get confused ridiculously easily. I tend leave a bunch of comments and then step away, but sometimes I can work well through it; things like horrendous variable names/regexs will throw me. I default to snake_case but compile over when I share the code.
This is my unique situation and predilection to being able to read one form more easily than another, but it does indeed help me.