A wonderful blogpost from @Gilad_Bracha on why Smalltalk never quite made it big. Probably depressing for insiders, but certainly interesting for those of us looking closely from the outside in. https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html …
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Yes, what is pleasant to some maybe unpleasant for others. It doesn't follow that Smalltalk or Lisp cannot be mainstream; Python and Javascript are mainstream, and have technical advantage (on the contrary). You can combine: optional typing & liveness etc.
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In Computing as in Chemistry, energy barriers determine how fast programmers adopt or leave a language community, and thus what proportion remain at any moment. Python and JS have lower barrier to entry than Lisp or Smalltalk. As once Perl or PHP had.
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