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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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[-] Pamasich@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I just use the Swiss keyboard layout. Here's an image from Wikipedia.

Don't have any experience with any others.

[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Aren’t brackets hard to type in Swiss layout? Most of my Swiss coworkers switch to US.

[-] Pamasich@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe in comparison to the US layout? I'm not having any trouble with them.

If you mean the [] (and {}), they just use the right alt key, which is close enough to them.

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