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by vosper 1411 days ago
> "developer experience" (god I hate that term)

Why do you hate it? It's useful to have a term to differentiate between the experience of the person using the output of the tool (user experience) versus that of the people developing with the tool (developer experience).

Honestly we need more DX improvements in this industry. Especially look at DevOps - the user experience of Chef's output (I'm picking on Chef here, it's hardly the only offender) is servers and services, and the users (other engineers) consuming those outputs can have a nice time. The DX of using Chef, though, can be ughh....
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grishka 1411 days ago
> Honestly we need more DX improvements in this industry.

Nope, we need to roll back everything that happened in the last ~10 years. We at the very least need to stop sticking JS and the web stack everywhere. Use the right tool for the job, NOT pick up a shiny tool and try to do literally everything with it. NOT stumble upon solution and start looking for problems to it. Finally realize that software engineering is actual engineering that, like other forms of engineering, has a sizable impact on other people's lives. Unlike in other forms of engineering, the cost of a mistake might feel diminutive enough, but people do suffer trying to use modern software products. I wish I was joking.

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eKIK 1411 days ago
100% agree with you that there's a lot of improvements to be done for a lot of the software we developers use on a daily basis. It's the term DX / Developer Experience in itself I dislike strongly. My sibling poster @swyx did a great job explaing my main gripe with using abbreviations like this.

I also hadn't had any coffee in way too long, so I have to admit I was a bit grumpy at the time of writing the comment :)

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swyx 1411 days ago
it is subjective and overused - perfect storm for industry jargon that takes up a lot of space without saying anything more than "this thing sparks joy"
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vosper 1411 days ago
It’s no more subjective than “user experience”, which is a term thrown around far more often than “developer experience”, without complaint (and of course, the DX of Astro-using devs is UX for the Astro creators)

It might be overused, that’s an opinion, I don’t agree.

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