alt Hacker News> Silent discards of the shift key also affect Programmer Dvorak as the numbers require it.
That sounds... aggressively unergonomic. Are programmers not expected to frequently use numbers?
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boredatoms • today at 12:57 PM
We use the ( ) [ ] { } keys more often than numbers, so it works out nice
Actually programmers use the symbols far more frequently than the numbers. The number row on Programmer Dvorak is, from left-to-right,
Looks really weird at first glance! but if you try it out, [square brackets] and (parens) are symmetrical fingers on opposing hands. By hand, [] is the ring fingers (2,0 on a qwerty). {} is (3,4 on the left-hand) and () is 5,8 aka your pointing fingers, left hand then right.Having the luxury of the parens and frequent symbols (especially if you code Clojure or a Lisp) on the tippy-top row is awesome.
Plus, the numbers are also split by hand!
From middle-going-out:
Left hand: 91357 Right hand: 02468
Which lets you type numbers without looking for them by eye :)