Kbd VS klfc

Should you wish to type them on a normal keyboard:

https://abrudz.github.io/lb/apl has a browser bookmarklet which adds an APL language bar to the top of any web page so you can type in any input box with backtick prefixes.

https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd has a Windows Input Method Editor (IME) that adds system-wide RightAlt+letter combos.

:d) https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd

I use setxkbmap -layout us,apl -variant ,dyalog -option grp:switch on Linux and https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd on Windows.

This might have been true a couple of years ago but it is totally untrue now.

I'm not sure why you couldn't use the student version of Dyalog? Sounds like it would have been fine. There are also many more FOSS implementations of array languages now, such as ngn/k and April. https://github.com/phantomics/april

'only available for Linux' - not true https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd/ and others (also different input modes like `w for ⍵)

'no community support' - on the contrary there is a big and helpful APL community https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Chat_rooms_and_forums that is (imo) more useful than stackoverflow

'Dynamic scoping...' - Dyalog's (and other APL's) dfns have lexical scope.

'The language is extremely terse' - is this meant to be a bad thing?

'The code tends to be very hacky' - maybe if you write bad code or try and write C in APL (it won't work)

In general programming I like to use a keyboard layout which allows typing APL glyphs with Right Alt: https://github.com/abrudz/Kbd

I use https://github.com/39aldo39/klfc in my scripts to generate the OS-specific files for ANSI layouts. I convert the KLA json to their format. There may be bugs in that process. Checking it is on to-do list.

On Windows I am using DreymaR's extend layer to navigate in Vim using the directional keys on JKLI (qwerty). On Linux I used KLFC to create a custom keyboard replicating that of Dreymar's, I just tweaked a few keys on the examples folder to better suit my needs.

The OTHER Big News is that I now have install files for basic ANSI layouts. They are in Alpha/Beta state, I have not tested them and will welcome feedback. They are generated via the Keyboard Layout Files Creator @ https://github.com/39aldo39/klfc

The diaeresis appears on the bépo layout by default. It also has Greek letters, like say Σ. I have extended bépo by setting Caps Lock to work as a modifier key, so I get twice as much space. Every time I meet a new symbol I want to have, I put it somewhere on the keyboard. klfc is a fantastic tool for this.

How did you create your custom layout? I already found out about klfc, but 1. It doesn't work on wayland, 2. It's not entirely clear to me how to use this tool.

KLE .json has a lot of issues. Den and I have started talking about what we need. Probably needs a wider group. There is already this project as well as Kalamine