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by Gehinnn 2304 days ago
I think that improving DX might be the most important thing of the future software industry. If a single developer devotes his live to a better DX, hundred of thousands of developers might be significantly more productive.

I really like to explore new DX approaches (just recently, I published an extension for VS Code enabling visual debugging [1]). But I find it hard to make a living out of it, as so many companies find it granted that everything is free. They would rather hire another developer than paying for licenses that might effectively increase the effiencency of the developers they already have.

[1] https://github.com/hediet/vscode-debug-visualizer/blob/maste...

2 comments

Just a little bit of feedback, while the visuals are quite nice I think this page could be helpful if treated like a landing page, what's the problem/why is this helpful compared to what I currently/normally do. I might not be the target audience though, since I don't understand what it does/why it helps quite quickly through scanning
What a cool extension! I'll give it a whirl!

On impact: I've been running the numbers for a tool I'm working on and the projected savings for the industry look insane! Just by shaving off 10 minutes here or there you can contribute a lot.