Can anyone suggest keyboard layouts that would benefit a programmer?
Most of the languages I work with are C-syntax (PHP, C++, Javascript).
It's easy to make custom keyboard maps in Linux, so I can try pretty
much whatever I want.

I like the Colemak philosophy of not moving too far from QWERTY.
I tried Dvorak, but it was just too much of a change.
After looking at Colemak I know I can live with this.

The only problem I see for a programmer is trying to move the HJKL keys
which are critical to Vim editor users (perhaps Emacs people won't have this problem).
I would like to try a hybrid Colemak layout that does not move these keys.

Any thoughts?

Yours,
Noah