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I want to learn the stenography input method (like Plover). Time would be the biggest factor as I’m sure there are enough good-enough keyboards that aren’t muc
by keybored 2y ago
I want to learn the stenography input method (like Plover). Time would be the biggest factor as I’m sure there are enough good-enough keyboards that aren’t much more expensive than some fancy mechanical keyboard.
Imagine if programmers were stenographers and computing wasn’t born/grew up in an age with slow teletypes. Maybe most computer code would be keyword/word-heavy (because that’s what stenography is good at) instead of symbol.. heavy.
- smitelli 2y agoIf some developer out there has adopted a stenography keyboard, I suspect they write Java code with it.
- MonkeyClub 2y agoThe APL keyboards are the closest I can think of.
- sebastiennight 2y agoI misread your comment as recommending steganography keyboards for Java programming, and it all made sense.
- worthless-trash 2y agoI use the https://stenokeyboards.com/products/the-uni-v4 https://stenokeyboards.com/products/the-uni-v4 for lisp. It is quite efficient. Shortcuts for barf, slurp and the brackets, pretty easy to learn/abuse. My focus has been CL and clojure.
- keybored 2y agoThanks for this. I should make a potential steno shopping list.
- worthless-trash 2y agoOne thing i'd reccomend is changing the default kit for low profile key caps. If you want something that is capable of both qwerty AND steno, consider the polyglot from https://stenokeyboards.com/ https://stenokeyboards.com/ (not sponsored).
- Analemma_ 2y agoI think actual stenography, like court transcribers use, wouldn't be a great fit for programming, because it is designed specifically around the use case of spoken English (or whatever), and relies on shorthand for phonemes to achieve speedups. It doesn't really have allowances for punctuation and other things that are specific to programming syntax. But there's been a steady increase in the popularity of chorded keyboards with a small number of keys, which is kind of like stenography but probably more suitable to writing code. I don't really like them myself (I prefer a 60% keyboard with macros and layer modifiers over memorizing a bunch of chords), but some people swear by them. I assume there are projects to do it in software as well if you don't want a fancy new keyboard. I'd look in that direction if you want to check this out.
- keybored 2y agoBut my point is an alternate history where those things were the case. You’re assuming the current history. Relatively modern tools like vim and Perl inherited the syntax of the parsimonious, symbol-heavy teletype era.