Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?

namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 130 points –

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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U wot m8. It's next to Enter

what about the back tick That's what I meant I don't give a fuck

It's possible they tried the British layout on their American ANSI keyboard, which is missing the extra key that ISO keyboards have (the one next to enter which the British layout uses for # and ~)?

I'm not actually sure how to press that key at all if you're using the British layout on an ANSI keyboard