The arrow keys are not even shown on the layout.
And the selection of prose corpus (es?) is again not related to programming [Tom Sawyer].
We need underscores, braces, semicolon, context menu.
Perhaps a better metric would be the hoc compiler source from The Unix Programming Environment.
From the dawn of time (1/1/1970) or perhaps even earlier, programmers have used home row keys for those actions. In vim for example we map h,j,k,l and so on for such movements...
> The arrow keys are not even shown on the layout
Nothing that learning Vim keybindings can't solve.
I use a “vimium” plug-in for Firefox and I quite like being able to go up/down with j/k. Though I still use the arrow keys for my terminal.
I've tried out vim-mode bash in the past, but much prefer the default emacs-mode on the command line, despite being a vim user.
Either way I'm suspecting a ton of exceptions which necessitate resorting often to the cursor keys, however (like another commenter has mentioned w.r.t various GUI apps).
Only discreet keys cover these