I would _love_ to be able to use Smalltalk at work. Until it can work properly with git, and people can use their own text editors (vim, emacs, sublime), and quite a few other bits and pieces, it's just a non-starter.
it will happen. I'm sure :)
I _like_ Pharo, and I _like_ how it has energy and momentum, and a much nicer UI than the old Pharo 1.0 UI. I'm honestly quite jealous of the resources the community wields, not just because of INRIA's and the Consortium's money, but because there are loads of people actually around, who are prepared to knuckle down and do the gruntwork needed. Squeak is now a very small community. I'm rather proud of what we get done with what little we have.
Just so that I understand. What are you trying to achieve? Most of the pharo people are not payed for doing pharo. What we are building (and fighting for) is an ecosystem in which smart guys can also find a job and it is becoming to happen. Mariano is full of work and many others. Sean told me that he got several job offers. Pharo is not the end, it is the start. It is not like we would like it to be but everyday it gets closer to it. Stef