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For true geekery, compile a corpus of text that you typed and generate a good layout for your inputting needs using a genetic algorithm or something like that. There is some code on github that you can steal.

Yeah, you could do that. Dvorak has the advantage of being comparatively mainstream, it even comes with random Windows computers.

Also by now I have a keyboard that speaks dvorak natively. The Kinesis Advantage. Of course, that keyboard is programmable enough that I could make it speak custom layouts too, or just fix it in the OS.

I converted to Dvorak over a decade ago, and am happy with the results. My fingers stay on the home row much more, and typing rolls more smoothly. (I have a long write-up at https://www.nayuki.io/page/i-type-in-dvorak )

I wonder how Unix and Linux commands syntax would look like if they were developed with dvorak keyboards

Commands are perfectly fine. But you can't practically use the hjkl keys for navigation in vim.