Comment by rbanffy
3 months ago
Once I asked James Gosling what Java did right that Smalltalk did wrong. He simply answered “Smalltalk never played well with others”.
Imposing a very different metaphor from the ground up limited adoption and integration with other tools and environments.
Let's remember: Java was free-as-in-beer.
Java and Squeak are contemporaries. Squeak was released shortly after Java.
Let's remember: Dancin' Duke Java Applets distributed with Netscape's web browser.
"Sun is giving away Java and HotJava free, in a fast-track attempt to make it a standard before Micro-soft begins shipping a similar product"
https://archive.gyford.com/1997/wired-uk/1.08/features/java....
https://simberon.blogspot.com/2012/04/smalltalk-history-draf...
Please spell-out your point, so we can avoid talking past each other.