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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...



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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