I’ve been using https://neo-layout.org/ for about 10 years, which is a keyboard layout optimized for German, English, Programming, Maths, in that order. It has many layers with conveniently located “special” keys.
Dvorak only rearranges the main layer. NEO introduces a bunch of useful ones.
Adopting an ergonomic keyboard layout doesn’t typically make you a faster typist, but it makes typing more pleasant.
It seems that most non US keyboard layouts suck really hard for programming, because the special symbols are in hard to reach places. Neo really fixes this by having a layer 3 that gives easy access to all important programming symbols. And with the layout it is also reasonably simple to write texts in various western languages beyond German and English.
Because Neo repurposes CAPS LOCK it is adviseable to have a ISO keyboard with 105 keys and not a ANSI keyboard without the second CAPS LOCK key. But I've also used Neo with ANSI keyboards in the past...
Dvorak only rearranges the main layer. NEO introduces a bunch of useful ones.
Adopting an ergonomic keyboard layout doesn’t typically make you a faster typist, but it makes typing more pleasant.