There is one simple trick that helped me a lot with writing code and gives me clearly better ergonomics. Maybe a bit caused by the issue of German keyboard layout not working very well for this purpose.
For Windows devices you can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and create your own custom keyboard layouts.
I didn't want to change the German layout per se, but make the special character for programming more accessible and close to each other. Most notably [], {}, <> and `.
So I mapped them to AltGr (right thumb) + ASDFYXW in a way that they are very ergonomic to type. E.g to write {}, I just have to press AltGr + df.
Like the author suggests, I've also setup Autohotkey to save me writing common things, but this is well known and if I had to pick, I'd prefer having that custom keyboard layout over typing expansion.
For Windows devices you can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator and create your own custom keyboard layouts.
I didn't want to change the German layout per se, but make the special character for programming more accessible and close to each other. Most notably [], {}, <> and `.
So I mapped them to AltGr (right thumb) + ASDFYXW in a way that they are very ergonomic to type. E.g to write {}, I just have to press AltGr + df.
Like the author suggests, I've also setup Autohotkey to save me writing common things, but this is well known and if I had to pick, I'd prefer having that custom keyboard layout over typing expansion.