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)?

  • childOfMagenta@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Well, after trying a US keyboard for coding I never went back to a french one. It’s so much easier…

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      9 months ago

      I have read somewhere that france and belgium have a minor code deficit compared to eurooeab countys that use qwerty.

      Looking it up its not hard to see why.

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        9 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.