Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by anticodon on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:01AM (#19386832)

Macbook is a very poor choice for developer because of the keyboard without Escape key. I tried to use keyboard without Esc and it's simply too painful to use.

I don't care about the tax. But I can't buy a tool built for aliens by aliens. I could adapt to all the crazy keyboard changes all manufacturers tried over the years. But removing Esc key makes it completely unusable.

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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by mruts on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:13AM (#19389935)

For vim? I'm not a vim user but most of them just rebind it to something better, right?

I use emacs/intellij and almost never have had the need to use the Esc key for anything at all.

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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by oceliker on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:08PM (#19395184)

I use vim. I do map Esc to caps lock, but it’s muscle memory to reach for Esc at this point, so it’s still difficult to justify the touch bar. Thankfully I use a Macbook (not Air, not Pro), which I (affectionately) call the SSH machine.

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Re:Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet developme... by anticodon on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:32PM (#19395932)

Mostly for vim, yes. I can't remap it to CapsLock, because I'm Russian and I already use CapsLock for switching keyboard layouts for 20+ years.

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