The Inglorious Developer Experience (DX) – Spring 2016 Edition

The Inglorious Developer Experience (DX) has been focusing on improving APIs and enhancing developer experience since its manifesto launch. Key updates include Docker integration, production-ready Geospatial, asynchronous programming support with C/C++ client v4.0, Python 3 support, Node.js client v2.0, Indexed List, Map & GeoJSON, Play Framework integration, and Spring Data integration. The team plans to deliver features like Sorted Map and Last Time Updated in the first half of this year while maintaining currency with OSs, Distros, and Client Languages. They also aim to improve API usability, error messages clarity, provide standard UDFs, enhance documentation & examples, and extend native datatype support. Developers are encouraged to contribute their feedback, ideas, and questions to the user forum or Github for continuous improvement of DX.