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		marshray on July 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Impressions of Go That's odd, I consider ';' as one of the easiest things to type. What kind of keyboard are you on? I'm a C++ developer and go so far as to make it harder. I map ; to <esc> in vim, and enter the actual char with a second ; (from from normal mode).

kluge on July 24, 2013 [–]

On the US keyboard it probably is. On Finnish keyboard it's where < is on the US one, i.e. Shift-comma.

marshray on July 24, 2013 | [–]

Yeah, I always felt a tiny bit sorry for non-US developers, especially using languages like Perl that use $ all over the place.

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