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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      5 months ago

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

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        5 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.

        • childOfMagenta@lemm.ee
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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.