Yeah, I can understand that someone who’s into coding would also be nerdy enough to separately care about keyboard layouts, but truly, I would hardly benefit from faster typing speed, because my brain’s constantly rattling while I do that. If I finish typing early, I still won’t have finished thinking. And for the rare times, where there’s no thinking involved, chances are that you can copy-paste 90% of it and then have to edit select places. So, not really hugely beneficial to type faster either.
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Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 days agoWell you say that, but I’ve had legit discussions with coders that use things like Dvorak because it allows them to type faster and thus code faster. I pointed out the actual typing of the code is the easy part and only a very small part of the bigger task. This one coder that swore by Dvorak had an impressive typing speed for sure, but also a reputation he could never push his commits because the linter kept spotting typos. And even then wouldn’t get through testing because not all typos are caught by the linter. Of course he was the kind of developer that wrote 3000 lines of code before ever committing anything and testing for himself was beneath him, that was a job for the testers. Once he had lost a couple of days of work because he didn’t commit/push and when he booted his machine somehow his files got corrupted and all was lost. After that he was in trouble for the nteenth time and was let go, shame because I liked the guy.
Using alternative layouts to prevent rsi I’m all for, but optimizing typing speed seems like not the way to go. I’m old and learned to type on a typewriter and later horrible 80s keyboards (although some were nice as well), so I don’t care, as long as it has keys I’m OK to go.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 days ago
There’s a really annoying subgroup of developers who are convinced that typing itself magically produces good code and the only bottleneck in their productivity is how fast they can smash keys.
These are the ones who are hellbent on not using anything graphical, a mouse or any tool they deem too advanced.
It’s super annoying, especially since they often spend more time “optimizing” their setup than actually working, and even more time talking about how efficient they are.
prof@infosec.pub 5 days ago
That’s sad.
If the negative for more speed is errors, then you’re not faster.
snw@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Dvorak is kinda trash as an alternative layout anyway, there are way better modern layouts that are excellent for comfort
theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Just gimme what I know. The kids can hit those newer layouts.
My brain isn’t up to the task of learning a new finger language.
snw@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Yeah it’s a pretty painful task to learn a new layout. I’ve done it 3 times, going from QWERTY -> Dvorak -> BEAKL15 -> Graphite, it’s been a pretty awful experience each time. Especially the latest one, as I actually have a job now where I type a lot. There was a period of about a month where I slowly forgot my old layout and needed to build speed with my new one pretty quickly.
But, if you ever are looking to switch, I can definitely recommend Graphite as keyboard layout for developers. I personally swapped X and J to make it more dutch-friendly, but other than that it’s been excellent for comfort.