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I've used a US-QWERTY keyboard layout my entire life. I've seen other layouts that do things like reduce the size of the enter/backspace keys, move the pipe operator (|) and can't wrap my head around how I would code on those.

What are your experiences? Are there any layouts that you prefer for coding over US English? Are there any symbols that you have a hard time reaching ($ for example)?

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 14 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I program with the italian layout and i's fine, the only annoyances are that to use the slash you need to use shift, all while the backslash has a dedicated key; also you need to use alt codes to type a tilde.

[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

the only annoyances are that to use the slash you need to use shift

Oof, that sounds really annoying. I can't possibly imagine how I would use the terminal that way

[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

After a while it becomes muscle memory; the good thing is that you can see if someone is a programmer/linux user because the key for the numer 7 is more worn out than most of the others

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