DX stands for developer experience

#beginners

Ben Halpern Jan 6 ・1 min read

I came across this interaction around the use of the term "DX" in this pull request within the Forem repo.

I thought it would be useful to share this for anybody else who might come across this term and be confused. Acronyms can be passed around with few explanations.

Happy coding ❤️

Discussion (18)

Julien Maury • Jan 6

I knew DUx, DX is probably a shorthand ^^

Michiel Hendriks • Jan 7

Deus Ex : Developer User Experience

Ben Halpern • Jan 6

TIL DUx 😅

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jan 6

If it looks like DUx, swims like DUx, quacks like DUx, then it probably is DUx. scnr😅

Paul • Jan 6

Not to be confused with architeuthis dux 🦑

Calin Baenen • Jan 7

"DUx" sounds weird. "Developer Uxperience"?

Julien Maury • Jan 7

kinda, so "Ux" too

Daniel Barwikowski • Jan 7

UX - User Experience
DUX - Dev User Experience???

Calin Baenen • Jan 7

Maybe... Then why would the X be lower?

Julien Maury • Jan 6

héhé, still, as developers, we are users with privileges, we have access to the backstage, I prefer mixing the two terms.

swyx • Jan 6

i realize it is Yet Another Acronym... but having worked in it for a few years its a really handy one. sorry for helping to inflict it on the world...

Calin Baenen • Jan 7

Thanks for the tip!
Thought it meant "Double XP" for a minute. :P

Madza • Jan 6

Did not know that 😉 Coming from UX, I guess 😉

Lou — Cloud Engineer • Jan 6

DX is quite literally, my job.

😂

Lou — Cloud Engineer • Jan 6

Quite a muddled term though, but glad to see it being used, it's a useful term for referring to thinking about developers in the context of your code, tools etc. All empathy is good empathy!

Kai • Jan 8

Well, I think I should write a bit more about this topic in the future. At least I wrote my master thesis on Developer Experience (DX) and Web APIs. I could possibly say a bit more about that...