<story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krzyk</author><text>and lack of F1-F12 is a show stopper for me, I use them in my IDE.</text></item><item><author>bsnnkv</author><text>I have quite a few of these sorts of keyboards, including the Ergodox EZ. I think for generalist usage they can be adapted to pretty easily, but as a developer, the lack of dedicated keys for [, ] and &amp;#x27; is an insurmountable obstacle for me.&lt;p&gt;Those keys are in my opinion perfectly placed on regular keyboards and no amount of layering, tap dancing or anything else will ever come close. Please somebody just make a split ergo keyboard where the right side has extra keys for regular programming symbols on the top layer. The two halves do not need to be symmetrical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rgoulter</author><text>These small keyboards trade-off the benefit of &amp;quot;bring all the keys within easy reach of the hands&amp;quot; at the cost of a more complicated layout.&lt;p&gt;The intent is &amp;quot;be able to press F1-F12 without having to move hands so far from home row&amp;quot;; it&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;I want a smaller keyboard and don&amp;#x27;t need F1-F12&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard</title><url>https://www.zsa.io/voyager/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>krzyk</author><text>and lack of F1-F12 is a show stopper for me, I use them in my IDE.</text></item><item><author>bsnnkv</author><text>I have quite a few of these sorts of keyboards, including the Ergodox EZ. I think for generalist usage they can be adapted to pretty easily, but as a developer, the lack of dedicated keys for [, ] and &amp;#x27; is an insurmountable obstacle for me.&lt;p&gt;Those keys are in my opinion perfectly placed on regular keyboards and no amount of layering, tap dancing or anything else will ever come close. Please somebody just make a split ergo keyboard where the right side has extra keys for regular programming symbols on the top layer. The two halves do not need to be symmetrical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajford</author><text>I thought this was going to be a barrier for me as well, but after using a Moonlander (one of ZSA&amp;#x27;s other keyboards) for over a year now, it&amp;#x27;s not as bad. I have a layer that has F1-10 in place of 1-0, then F11 and F12 are on overflow keys.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve found that the hotkeys I most frequently use I moved in to more convenient hotkeys&amp;#x2F;macros (for example code folding&amp;#x2F;unfolding to three common levels, debugger stepping), while others just stayed where they were.&lt;p&gt;I would say that you&amp;#x27;d probably want to try a larger keyboard than the Voyager though if that&amp;#x27;s a concern though. I&amp;#x27;m reticent to try such a smaller keyboard, and I found the ~70 keys of the Moonlander to be more inline with what I like.</text></comment>