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I sympathize greatly and cannot relate. That said I kinda read this as "how dare they deviate from the entirely logical and we'll thought out qwerty! Those keys are like for a reason!" Lol no they aren't.
Why not code in French layout? Or use AZERTY as your main english? (Just wondering. I'm American and monolingual. Changing layouts is just not something I think about or do) -
@Fast-Nop I can't speak to the French layout, but at least for the English layout story goes (this may just be a story. Don't know):
Type writers sucked in the early days and jammed frequently. If you push two adjacent keys together they catch, or another mechanism freezes if you hit multiple keys too fast. So they designed a layout that was unintuitive, required significant movements to slow typists and separated common diagraphs to prevent catching (ch, ck, sh, in, etc)
People got used to it and even after type writers got better it was just "the way things are"
Situation : Most of my company's clients speak French, and I prefer a Qwerty keyboard for coding.
And to write proper french, I have to switch to an FR keyboard to type é, à, è...etc.
But, for some reason, I usually forget to switch back to English. Oops ! , for some reason, our fellow french chose to put change Z and W places on the keyboard.
And I end up 'ctrl+W'ing (close) , while in fact I wanted to 'ctrl+Z'ing (undo) .
I did some changes to test my code, and after I accidently closed the whole shit, it turned out that I can't undo it anymore.
Thank you french engineers for this unpleasant headache.
I wonder what they were thinking about when they switched Z and W places ?
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