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Discussion on: COVID-19 - what does it mean for the dev world

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LOLiver • Edited

Bit of a shame to see articles like this on dev.to. You can't look anywhere online without seeing some worrying news story about the virus. I just wanted to read some code stuff without being reminded.

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Carlos Trapet

And people profiting from clickbait articles to promote themselves.
Seeing all these people and companies try to prioritise profit over health is repulsive

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Do you mean the last section of the article? This is the way all posts of mine builds. I am not gonna change it because of the virus. I could say the same about this kind of comment, but whats the point? The virus generates negative emotions, this is understandable, we need to calm down.

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Tomek Poniatowicz

Sorry, you can't ignore the impact it has on the global economy which the dev sector is definitely a part of. The virus has a huge impact on dev business and will define how your work routine might look like in the nearest future. Sad, worrying but 100% real.

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LOLiver • Edited

I feel like you made this article because you knew scared people would click it, rather than a desire to inform people. Nothing in the article really relates to development.

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Andrea Scotto Di Minico

As a freelancer unfortunately some of my clients cancelled or postponed projects for Q2 due to the current situation. The point of the article I think is not to scare people but to be aware of huge change in economics, where all sectors will be affected.

As HUGE our society is, a little virus spreading around is crushing it.

The question that should we ask ourself is: How can we help with development against the virus? How can we be prepared to face the corona virusa as software devs?