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kortex on Feb 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

I use an ergodox keyboard with a custom Dvorak based layout. Underscore is pretty prominent, analogous to the 4 key with no modifiers.

It makes a huge difference, so much so that using camelCase feels like a huge drag.

Qwerty is frankly awful for programming. I encourage everybody to look into alternate layouts.

skohan on Feb 13, 2021 [–]

So would you seriously suggest that programming languages should be optimized for extremely rare, niche keyboards rather than the standard that ships with virtually every laptop which nearly 100% of coders will be using?

detaro on Feb 13, 2021 | [–]

They are clearly not suggesting that.

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