Does anyone use the Programmer's Dvorak keyboard layout?
The other day we interviewed a developer candidate who uses this layout, with some of his own modifications. We have another guy who works at HubSpot who is trying to learn this layout, and yet another guy, not a developer, who uses the "normal" Dvorak layout.
I put "normal" in quotes because it seems highly unusual. I hadn't heard of anyone even trying to use this layout on a daily basis in several years. Is that common? Do you have a lot of people in your organization who use this layout?
If you do use the Dvorak, or Programmer's Dvorak, keyboard layout, what would you say your productivity increase is? Have you measured it in some typing or other tests?
I wonder if it's mostly about the cool factor, about being different. That has value, for sure. It generates fun debates and discussions. It makes for easy opportunities to play a joke on someone. But is the productivity improvement there?
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