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> That said, there are better researched layouts that DVORAK, with actual modern research behind them. From what I've read the difference between from Qwerty t
by audunw 8y ago
> That said, there are better researched layouts that DVORAK, with actual modern research behind them.
From what I've read the difference between from Qwerty to Dvorak is much bigger than from Dvorak to the more optimized layouts. They add marginal improvements. As you say yourself, no layout can be perfect in every context. So since Dvorak is built in to most OSs these days, it's a very good compromise.
Dvorak isn't meant to be a holy grail, just a nice comfort boost.
For professional programmers I can recommend getting the ErgoDox keyboard to optimize access to special characters.
- WorldMaker 8y agoColemak made it into out-of-the-box Linux and BSD keyboard layout lists and from there to macOS and even iOS, Android. The obvious key holdout left is Windows and that's probably something like just a handful of User Voice votes from making the cut. It has some small advantages to Dvorak as a good "compromise" for programmers in that a lot of the major shortcut keys stay in the same place (the left-hand bunch of AZXCVB, especially), and almost all the punctuation (the big obvious move being ; moves up a key out of the home row). (I also like that it has a better "wheel of fortune" score than Dvorak, not that it hugely matters, but all but L in RSTLNE are on the home row, and L is in one of the easiest reaches [up on the right, where QWERTY has U]. Not everyone believes that crowd-sourced wisdom of a decades old game show is useful efficiency data, but it's still an amusing thing to take into account.)