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🤘 A curated list of DX (Developer Experience) resources
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Proper abbreviation for Developer Experience: DX, DevEx or DEx? #5

Open varlen opened 3 years ago

varlen commented 3 years ago

Hello everyone!

Since this emerging area of study inside software engineering, there's no proper standardization on how to abbreviate "Developer Experience". While searching for information about the subject, I found different ways of shortening it: DX, DevEx and DEx.

I believe that DX comes from the analogy with User Experience ("DX is the user experience of the developer"). However, personally, I have a slight concern of name colision with DirectX technology, which would reduce the "googlability" of the term.

In a Microsoft documentation it's possible to find the concept as DevEx.

Also, in a research paper, it was defined as DEx.

My idea with this issue is to raise concern within people interested in Developer Experience so we can facilitate search engines indexing for future content about this subject.

Do you folks have a abbreviation that you believe should be favored?

Edit: fix typo

zenorocha commented 3 years ago

That's a great point @varlen!

When I was putting together this repo, it was first called awesome-dx, but I decided to rename it to awesome-developer-experience in order to facilitate discoverability.

On top of DX, DevEx, and DEx, I also found the term DevX being used in https://devxconf.org.

@svenefftinge any thoughts on this? I'm curious why you guys decided to use DevXConf instead of DXConf. Is it because of naming conflicts with other conferences?

Anyways, I don't have a strong preference. In my opinion, DX sounds better because of the UX analogy.

SidneyAllen commented 1 year ago

@zenorocha - I'm leaning towards DX so it's similar to UX. Otherwise, I spell it out developer experience.

The Global Development professionals may have bet us on DevEx

https://twitter.com/devex. - with 100k followers https://www.devex.com/

cyfyifanchen commented 8 months ago

Same here, I like DX better too.

zackarychapple commented 8 months ago

DX could also be confused with Digital Experience. Depending on how wide the WorkOS community is planning to go and the variety of audiences that are being talked to, DX may carry multiple meanings.

However DevEx is very clear internationally.