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Curly braces
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2012–2023), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Curly braces need awkward key combinations on non-English keyboardsUnreviewed
20122026- Curly braces are far on the keyboard, awkward to type without moving hands2023-03-18
- Typing braces and parentheses with right shift strains the hand and stretches the fingers2023-03-18
- Curly braces are hard to read and require effort to keep matched2019-10-12
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Curly braces are far on the keyboard, awkward to type without moving hands2023-03-18
- Typing braces and parentheses with right shift strains the hand and stretches the fingers2023-03-18
- Curly braces are hard to read and require effort to keep matched2019-10-12
- Curly braces are hard to type on non-English keyboards, needing awkward key combinations2013-02-26
- Must switch keyboard layout before and after each brace, making Russian markup typing tiresome2012-08-27