As a kid, I remember being utterly confused, when most games with a console would have the key ` to open it. WTF is the key ` and where is it? For a kid it wasn't that easy to understand that there are such things as different keyboard layouts. Turns out that ` is a single key press to the left of the '1', in English, while it is a bit obscure character to write in other languages. In mine, you have º and ª in that p…
Also programming languages used it as an alias for exec. Even if you have a ` key, on some layouts (such as the Irish keyboard layout) it can be a weird key to type due to dead key behaviour, often requiring multiple presses to respond and eating the next keypress.
yeah.. i never use js template strings because of that frigging unusable backtick character.
Ist so hard to type on my layout, that its just not worth it -_-