I've used Dvorak for 35 years, and I generally agree with this author. I've always been a quick and accurate typist, but I suspect that has more to do with earl

I've used Dvorak for 35 years, and I generally agree with this author. I've always been a quick and accurate typist, but I suspect that has more to do with early touch-typing lessons than the Dvorak layout. Dvorak certainly hasn't hurt, and I've never wanted to switch, but there's little reason to believe I couldn't have developed the same facility with QWERTY if that's where I'd started. If curiosity about Dvorak is the hook that gets you to learn proper touch-typing, that's a win - use of Dvorak creates a certain discipline, after all, since there's no choice but to touch-type when the labels printed on the keys are meaningless! If you already touch-type fluently, however, I doubt you'll find much benefit. Besides, how much does typing speed matter to a software developer? I spend an order of magnitude more time reading and thinking than typing.