R – Customised programs for Dvorak

I strongly discourage you from learning a layout that has been heavily optomized for any one programming language (or even a class of them..) it's much, much easier to change languages than keylayouts, and you'll have a lot of trouble finding the tweaked layouts on any random computers you need to use.

That said, I've used dvorak for years (something like 7-8 years now) on a Kinesis Contoured keyboard and it works wonderfully. The kinesis is programmable, switches between qwerty/dvorak, and you can remap the keys all you want (so you could try out ddvorak or programmer dvorak pretty easily, without making software changes, if you wanted).

The contoured keyboard also forces you to touch-type more "correctly", since you can't easily reach across the keyboard with the wrong hand.

I use one of the more common recommended keybindings:

Dvorak it!
no d h
no h j
no t k
no n l
no s :
no S :
no j d
no l n
no L N
Added benefits
no - $
no _ ^
no N <C-w><C-w>
no T <C-w><C-r>
no H 8<Down>
no T 8<Up>
no D <C-w><C-r>

Movement keys stay in the same location. Other changes:

• Delete 'd' -> Junk 'j'
• Next 'n' -> Look 'l'
• Previous 'N' -> Look Back 'L'

There were also some changes for familiarity, 's'/'S' can be used to access command mode (the old location of the :, which still works).

Added Benefits

• End of line '$' -also- '-'
• Beginning of line '^' -also- '_'
• Move up 8 'T'
• Move down 8 'H'
• Next window <C-w><C-w> -also- 'N'
• Swap windows <C-w><C-r> -also- 'D'

-Adam