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Re:BYTE Magazine's Smalltalk issue (1981) by RandalSchwartz on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:45PM (#15033058)
dartlang.org is the modern heir-apparent to the Smalltalk language, backed by Google, and gaining a lot of traction.
Re:BYTE Magazine's Smalltalk issue (1981) by teapot7 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:42AM (#15034063)
Though Smalltalk is quite alive and happy in a niche way. I use pharo.org, but there's also Squeak, VisualWorks and a few others.

There's some good recent work on compiling to JavaScript, which seems to be the universal solvent these days.