Workman vs Programmer Dvorak

Colemak's focus on the home row is flawed. Due to differing finger lengths and the natural range of human hand motion, the center columns (even on the home row) take more effort to reach than the top row with the longer middle fingers. Workman takes this into account.

This is an emphasis shared with Colemak, but Workman focuses on the easiest keys instead of the home row.

This is good for preventing RSI.

Works so well out of the box that I can only think the creator thought about it beforehand.

Common characters {} [] <> () / ' " are easily accessible by the right hand on the right of the keyboard.
Combinations ( { + } for example) are placed side by side on the keyboard which is useful as well.

Someone mentioned a CON because it was designed for Matrix style keyboards, but it was designed on a standard keyboard. However, matrix style keyboards adds additional benefits on top of this key layout. For those who don't know matrix keyboards are those where the key rows are not offset, but are directly above one another.

AZX are in the QWERTY positions, and CV have only shifted one key right. This lets you use the mouse with the right hand and the shortcuts with the left, unlike Dvorak.

The macOS version of Workman has the comma (,) key as a dead key, which allows you to access harder keys on a secondary layer.

J and K are where C and V are on QWERTY. H is still left of L.

This keyboard took a stand and optimized the Dvorak standard for programming.

The letter keys are the same, so it's not nearly the same mental jump as Qwerty to Dvorak.

The top row is hardest to reach, and shifting doesn't make this easier. Programmers uses punctuation far more than numerals, so it makes sense to shift for the numerals instead of the punctuation.

You can enable it systemwide when you're installing Ubuntu.

The keyboard layout is open source and available for edition.

Completely subjective of course.

Dvorak Simplified Layout is more general and available on all OS, if we need to type on other's computer, we can still use the Dvorak Simplified Layout for typing.

The smallest numerals are the most frequently used, so why should they be on the weak fingers of the left hand? The order still makes sense too. Odd numbers on the left, even numbers on the right, ascending from the inside out (with the least used numeral '9' in the middle).

Having the original QWERTY labels is useful for other people using your computer or if you ever need QWERTY. Not having keycaps labeled in Dvorak forces you to learn to touch type. All QWERTY keyboards can be remapped to Dvorak in your operating system settings, so you don't need a physical Dvorak keyboards.

If an individual uses this and tells other people or they try it, the layout will be more popular, and those people will tell people and the world will change.