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)?

  • @namingthingsiseasy@programming.devOP
    1•10 months ago

    the only annoyances are that to use the slash you need to use shift

    Oof, that sounds really annoying. I can’t possibly imagine how I would use the terminal that way

    • @brokenlcd@feddit.it
      3•10 months ago

      After a while it becomes muscle memory; the good thing is that you can see if someone is a programmer/linux user because the key for the numer 7 is more worn out than most of the others

    • Rikudou_SageA
      1•10 months ago

      On Czech keyboard I use AltGr+q and it’s fine, muscle memory really does the hard work for you.