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That's fine and all, but how much time does a developer actually spend writing code? The bulk of any programming task is sifting through existing code to explore and gather context for a change. Anyone can take a look at any project's commit history to understand exactly how much code a developer types.

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I agree with that - but all that browsing around also requires plenty of typing and mousing around. I'm not saying DVORAK is the answer, just that when my hands hurt, the non-writing-code / code-browsing activities hurt too :)

> I agree with that - but all that browsing around also requires plenty of typing and mousing around.

Navigation is largely IDE-specific, and the next best thing to a de-facto standard is VI's keyboard-centric navigation gestures which were already picked with ergonomics in mind.

sure - but it's also common to go typing for terms that are related to what you just saw, which then involves typing generally. or maybe you're looking things up on the side, which again requires general typing.

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