Hey all, we make one of the keyboards on the list, Minuum. It has been really fun to see the iOS community jumping on to third party keyboards so whole-heartedly.

I'm curious, since I've never really asked the HN community about this: what do hackers look for in a virtual keyboard? We all have strong opinions on optimizing our hardware keyboards, (I suspect HN has one of the highest proportions of DVORAK users out there) but I've seen less debate for soft keyboards.

Software keyboards have the potential to be much more flexible and customizable than hardware ones, is this something that we want or need? Is lack of a good coding keyboard the thing that stops us from really writing code on a tablet?