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I don’t mind the {}s too much, maybe the primary reason I dislike them is actually more to do with the fact that I’m Danish and I’ll need to press option+shift+
by devjab 2y ago
I don’t mind the {}s too much, maybe the primary reason I dislike them is actually more to do with the fact that I’m Danish and I’ll need to press option+shift+7 to make a { on my Mac… or similarly annoying combinations depending on the machine/OS. I think I once had a windows laptop where I needed to press FN + something.
Anyway, when your language adds extra letters to the keyboard ÆØÅ in my case then they have to take the space from other things and since {}’s are rarely used they were one of the “obvious” choices.
On the flip side I don’t think the curley brackets add much to the readability.
- nextos 2y agoI'm European, I lived in Denmark for pretty long, and I found it a great quality-of-life improvement to switch to ANSI keyboards, or at least to an ANSI layout. By defining a compose key, you can type á, é, å, ø, ß, §, plus many other symbols, with relative ease, while still having all keys in the right place to program. For instance, using Emacs with any ISO layout is much harder.