You can use the F-keys AFAIK if you change the key mappings, however I’ve not tried it meself. I find the cmd keys just fine.

I’ve programmed on everything from a cannon computer in the 70′s to AS400′s and Apple’s to iPhones, Trs80 model 3′s to badAZ PC’s (you’ll recognize each of those pairings have some real things in common if you’ve been there) Apple lost it’s mind when it decided not to make it easier but to make it ‘better’… Then became elitist jerks to match the only people who could afford their overpriced hardware because they wanted to control the entire product like they ‘own’ all the software they sell (apple store any one?) Someday they will have no choice but to move entirely to pc compatible hardware and become the software company they always should have stuck to but they probably won’t have anything good to sell but their “BRAND”