[zak_mc_kracken]

Programmer's Dvorak? This is the first time it's come up in the discussion, we were talking about the regular Dvorak keyboard.

There's hardly any information about Programmer's Dvorak, by the way, not even a Wikipedia page.

[jjoonathan]

> we were talking about the regular Dvorak keyboard

"This car sucks! It can't even reach freeway speeds!"

"If you would shift out of first gear, you could reach freeway speeds."

"We weren't talking about higher gears!"

> There's hardly any information about Programmer's Dvorak

It's a more recent layout, yes, but it has achieved decent enough penetration that I would expect anyone seriously contemplating the switch after 2010 or so to be aware of it. Anyone who looked at stack overflow opinions on Dvorak, selected a Dvorak layout on linux, or googled Dvorak and programming in conjunction would have run across it.

You still haven't substantiated your claim regarding carpal tunnel.

[fractallyte]

My own "programmer's Dvorak" is just regular Dvorak with a few keys remapped for my preferred language(s). Since the syntax is so minimal, it's works very well - for me.

(On Linux, it's a simple xmodmap configuration in /etc/X11. I even made a Windows equivalent: an executable that can be installed/removed like any other program.)

With so many keyboard customization utilities available, I'm surprised more folks don't optimize the keyboard for their own use. Kinda like building one's own lightsaber...

[coldtea]

Obviously the plain Dvorak keyboard is "no true Dvorak".