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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by tarsinge on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:34AM (#21582409)

Second this.

Also more specific but if you are french the keyboard layout is not great for programming (because []{}';. are not straightforward). I’m more happy since I switched to QWERTY layout for programming. Since I touch type I can easily switch depending on the task.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by sgdpk on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:42AM (#21583375)

Just to add that this is not about QWERTY. The portuguese and spanish layouts are QWERTY, but still a pain [1]. Typically the best is to look for the US QWERTY layout or the international layout [2], the ones that have easily accessible brackets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KeyboardLayout-Portuguese...

[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106058/difference-...

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by leonlag on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:27AM (#21582625)

This is also the case for the german(qwertz) layout because whoever designed it gave zero fucks about people that use it to program. I have been much faster since switching to qwerty. The only issue is umlaute(ä,ü,ö,ß) but I just use compose key(caps lock in my case) + a,u,o,ss to type those.

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