Why does the SDK convert things to camelCase?

[KernelDeimos]

I'm working on an integration of multiple AI services. Some are compatible with Claude's SDK, some with OpenAI's SDK, and some - like Mistral AI - have their own SDK.

For reasons I don't understand, this SDK coerces snake_case properties to camelCase. I suspect whoever made that decision thought "this will make the SDK look nicer" and didn't realize they were breaking compatibility with code written against conventional SDKs.

My two questions are:

• why?
• can we fix it?

My suggestions are:

• release a major version where the camelCase garbage is scrapped
• add a parameter to make the SDK follow conventions

Someone could make the argument "this is a different SDK, and it can have its own conventions". My counterargument here is that it literally does follow the standard conventions if we just simply get rid of this camelCase thing; code written to work with OpenAI's SDK will suddenly work with Mistral's SDK without any changes.

[KernelDeimos]

Well... at least this isn't nearly as unique as Gemini's SDK