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> The other issue is that most of these alternate layouts are optimized for writing prose, and sometimes make other things, code, for example, more difficult.
by lawn 3y ago
> The other issue is that most of these alternate layouts are optimized for writing prose, and sometimes make other things, code, for example, more difficult.
Why would it make writing code more difficult? Code is mostly just English plus punctuation, which most layouts don't change.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- xigoi 3y agoCode uses much more punctuation than prose.
- lawn 3y agoI'm well aware, I did some analysis of my coding when I designed my layout[0]. The point is that alternative layouts generally doesn't make it _worse_ than qwerty (maybe some weird esoteric ones might do, but the popular ones being discussed here are at worst equal to qwerty in that regard). [0]: https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2021/06/03/the-t-34-keyboard-layout/#symbols https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2021/06/03/the-t-34-keyboar...