For me, this idea of voting is strange and even makes me uncomfortable. Does the creator of the language agree with this procedure? If this is not the case, we are following a wrong path here.
Moreover, are we going to vote for each presumably controversial topic, for instance the syntactically significant indentation? If would be the logical next step, but I’m not sure it will do any good to the language which will quickly look like some of these committee languages with lot of compromises to please a majority of users. In fact, this is the first time I see such a fuss about case insensitivity. Before C, most languages were case insensitive. Now, if you choose insensitivity, you have to suffer recriminations from some users and have to justify why you don’t do as C does. It looks like programmers are getting more conservative nowadays. Personally, I have used case sensitive and case insensitive languages without any problems. In both case, I write code in an insensitive way, following the style guide if it exists. Using case to differentiate identifiers is really the wrong thing to do. So, I can switch between Python and Nim without any difficulty despite Python being case sensitive (which, I think, is not the best choice for a language with implicit declaration). Of course, case sensitivity is simpler for the user but may cause lot of problems later if someone misuses it. And we can be sure, it will happen. So case insensitivity is a better choice to avoid any problem. The only drawback are possible variations in the spelling of identifiers, but it can be solved with appropriate tools. So, no vote for me. There are most important topics and this case sensitivity vs case insensitivity topic tends to become a little too much of a religious affair.
