I’ve used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I’ve seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can’t wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

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    5 months ago

    Interesting, but I’m skeptical. Couldn’t find anything that corroborates.

    I understand your premise as a quality deficit, but really the issue I had was typing speed / convenience.

    It’s more of a QOL thing. The final code is the same quality I think.

    Also, we spend much our time reading and thinking about the code rather than writing it.