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Re:Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014)... by TylerE on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:04PM (#36232738)
The issue I have with Dvorak is that it pushes many common programmer keys, like [], <>, and ; waaaay out to very unergonomic locations.
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Re:Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014)... by Symbiote on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:24AM (#36238820)
,.<> are slightly more convenient than on Qwerty, ;: is obviously worse but hardly "way out" (it's where Z is on Qwerty).

[]{} are indeed further out, but instead we have -_=+ closer. Once we add in all the English I type, file-names, U_R_L?s, --command --flags, /directories/, I think, if anything, the rearrangement is an advantage.

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