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good thing is, you can program the layout yourself. you can even put the parentheses in homerow and access it by holding one of the thumb keys and tap a key in homerow.

Parody of this comment from the other day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009068

Yes and I am sorry.

Most enthusiast split keebs run on QMK or ZMK which allow you to customize the layout as you'd like including features such as layers, one-shot mods (press shift, next key you press is shift+key), macros, and key combos (press jk to emulate shift like some people do in vim).

All custom keyboards should support something like QMK or ZMK, making them completely programmable, so you can have any messed-up layout you want :)

Which country is this? I’ve never heard of this particular layout.

It's the Woosh country.