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Re:Pharo 6.0 Released by vram22 on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:40PM (#14507814)
>Would be interesting to know why this platform is not more widespread.

Yes, it would, and also interesting to know how much work is available using Smalltalk / Pharo these days. I looked at the success page, there seem to be some slick apps there (on a brief look).

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Re:Pharo 6.0 Released by philippeback on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:12PM (#14509919)
As an employee I do not know. But as an entrepreneur or self employed developer providing solutions, there are quite a few successful people.

Maybe they are flying under the radar.

Yes, there are some slick apps being done, with no need for a legion to deliver a sizeable piece of functionality.

Pharo forked from Squeak because it wanted to be a vehicle to deliver business value for real and not just be a research ground. Version 6 is a significant milestone in that direction. Iceberg (Git tool) was funded by the consortium. http://consortium.pharo.org/ Check the industrial members, this is no small fish.

I guess that we are on this trajectory: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...

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Re:Pharo 6.0 Released by vram22 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @01:16PM (#14515561)
I was asking about both, for employees as well as self employed.

Thanks for the informative answer.

Good point about the trajectory.

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