One thing that often goes unmentioned when I see discussions about these sorts of alternate layouts is that, particularly for programmers, the keyboard isn’t just a simple device for entering text, it’s the mechanism through which we interact with our computing environment, and most tooling is either specifically or unintentionally designed to enhance the productivity of people typing in QWERTY. Whether it’s simple c…
That's one of the reasons I decided on Colemak years ago: zxcvbqw don't move, which is most hotkeys (undo, cut, copy, paste, etc), plus hkjl, for vim, is ATLEAST on one hand, but unfortunately it's all hit with the index finger.
