I know, it burns.
BTW, there’s a Discourse glitch for you too: middle-clicking the link works, but left-clicking it messes up the link with % crap and tacks &post_id=42104&topic_id=8579 on the end.
Something I have learned this week:
Humans take keyboards seriously
Almost as seriously as editors.
The answer, as always, is that the best tool for you is the one that best fits the way you want to work and the tasks you need to accomplish. Since that isn’t identical for everyone, that means there will never be any one ultimate answer.
Let a thousand flowers bloom. Weed out the ones which really don’t work well for anyone. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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Ah yes…EMACS. Way back in the day, we used to say that stood for one of its key combinations: Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Space 
I’d be one of those folks. I haven’t found one I liked in ages (last one was an MS keyboard, funnily enough. @daneel says they have a new one out, which excites me.)
I’ve been using a standard straight keyboard for the last few years, and I’ve gotten used to it again, but nothing matches the speed and comfort I got from my ergonomic keyboard.
Sounds about right…I was a die-hard emacs user until I broke my wrist - emacs with a hand and a half does not work. (You’ll have to guess the editor I switched to, as I’m in a mood to promote peace today 
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I think you’re reading a lot into the copy that is not there.
I’m glad that you’ve clarified your intent and I don’t want to belabor the point, but your announcement post starts with:
The CODE Keyboard is the only simple, clean, beautiful backlit mechanical keyboard I’ve ever found. Because we built it that way.
And ends with:
I’m just happy to live in a world where the first truly great mechanical keyboard finally exists now.
Based on the text, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to read it as smug and dismissive of everything else out there in the history of keyboards that fails the test of ‘greatness.’
It’s only in the ensuing conversation that I’ve discovered that your rubric for “truly great” means like other non-truly great keyboards except white LED backlit. (check out the KBT Race LE)
My main objection has been and continues to be that (this seems obvious to me) that there are lots of great keyboards out there and what makes one greater than another for any individual depends primarily on their personal preference.
To cut just a bit of slack: Common practice in advertising is that you can always claim your product is “the best” – that’s considered acceptable pride and hyperbole, and at the very least it’s the best at producing a profit for its manufacturer – but you can’t claim it is better unless you can substantiate that claim.
So this is one of many keyboards whose creators consider them the best. Whether it’s better depends on your needs.
Tools for tasks, and for craftsmen. The best screwdriver in the world makes a poor hammer. (But it’s probably better than trying to use a hammer to drive a screw.)
While we’re on the topic of keyboards, I’d like to raise a glass to the memory of a REAL weirdo: the keyboard for the IBM 3270PC.
It was, at base, a Bad Idea – an attempt to produce a keyboard which both 3270 terminal users and PC users could touch-type on without any relearning, rather than a recognition that there was going to be a single user of the box and switching keyboard layouts that much was going to be Hopelessly Confusing. (Two separate sets of function keys, one along left side and one at top. And other major oddities.)
And it was a bulky beast, for its time.
But if you ignored that intent and just treated it as an extended IBMPC keyboard with a bunch of additional keys available for software customization, it was actually sorta interesting. It was one of the first to have both a numeric pad and a separate cursor/control pad, for example, solving the Num Lock ugliness; in that regard, it was an ancestor of the Model M.
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