Comment by keeda

I never used SmallTalk but from what I heard about it, I feel like Java/C# etc were a deliberate push towards that kind of environment via IDEs. I am not sure why SmallTalk didn't catch on, but it may have something to do with resistance from the C++ programmers that Guy Steele mentioned they had to drag towards Lisp via Java. It seems to me that the current crop of languages is the result of this forced evolution of a reluctant developer market from relatively barebones languages like C/C++ towards a SmallTalk-like future.