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There's an interesting conversation to be had about developer ergonomics. For me, on a Mac, it's far more easier to use characters and symbols on the bottom of

There's an interesting conversation to be had about developer ergonomics. For me, on a Mac, it's far more easier to use characters and symbols on the bottom of the keyboard. <script></script>. It's even easy to use a select few symbols from the number row. !, @, #, $ uses my left pinky on the left shift, left hand middle (or index) finger on the number &, *, (, and ) use my left pinky on the left shift, right hand finger on the number. ^ (and % + & to an extent) seem to be a no-mans land, similar to smart phone screens only allowing limited easy reach. If you're going to be typing a symbol character to mark a variable (or whatever else) it certainly needs to be easy to reach, and for me at least, the ^ isn't. Maybe it's just my typing style or that I have small fingers :( Edit: Also, what about IDE plugins? I would hate to lose type safety or smart suggestions for a line like this: <p>The time is now ^time.Now().String().</p>

kroltan 4y ago
Also, some keyboard layouts use dead keys for inputting ^ as a diacritic (for example, ABNT2 Portuguese, the standard in Brazil). This means that to type "â" I press the ^ key, which is actually Shift+~, then I press the letter to go under it, in this case, "a". If I want to type a standalone ^, I have to either press Shift+~ twice, or follow the Shift+~ with an invalid letter, such as "q" or space. So typing a lot of code that uses ^ is very annoying. For example, to type "^section" you have to do: Shift+~, Space, S... Additionally, and this is purely Apple's fault for being entirely deranged, on Macs you have to watch out even further, as it is possible to write both ^ and ˆ, depending on what you press. Shift+~ then space prints the lone diacritic, while Shift+~ then right arrow prints the ASCII ^ you've seen so far. Obviously, having to reach for the arrow keys for a common occurrence when typing is incredibly inconvenient, on top of the inconvenience described previously.
paulsmith 4y ago
> Also, what about IDE plugins? An LSP server for Pushup syntax is on the informal roadmap.

kroltan 4y ago

Also, some keyboard layouts use dead keys for inputting ^ as a diacritic (for example, ABNT2 Portuguese, the standard in Brazil). This means that to type "â" I press the ^ key, which is actually Shift+~, then I press the letter to go under it, in this case, "a". If I want to type a standalone ^, I have to either press Shift+~ twice, or follow the Shift+~ with an invalid letter, such as "q" or space. So typing a lot of code that uses ^ is very annoying. For example, to type "^section" you have to do: Shift+~, Space, S... Additionally, and this is purely Apple's fault for being entirely deranged, on Macs you have to watch out even further, as it is possible to write both ^ and ˆ, depending on what you press. Shift+~ then space prints the lone diacritic, while Shift+~ then right arrow prints the ASCII ^ you've seen so far. Obviously, having to reach for the arrow keys for a common occurrence when typing is incredibly inconvenient, on top of the inconvenience described previously.

paulsmith 4y ago

> Also, what about IDE plugins? An LSP server for Pushup syntax is on the informal roadmap.