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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by rileyphone on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:51PM (#31416709)
SELF was really fast, at least as claimed [0] - about half the speed of optimized C and quicker to compile. It was where the HotSpot tech for the JVM came from, and V8 uses a similar object model and thus techniques. Just wish they could have made it usable!

[0] https://bibliography.selflanguage.org/practical.html

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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by igouy on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:18PM (#31424587)
afaict Self and Dylan were research projects / product development projects.

Smalltalk had multiple commercial implementations and was used to build mission critical software in banks and utility companies and manufacturing companies and…

https://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf

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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by pjmlp on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:16AM (#31431657)
Apple sold Dylan to Harlequin, which sold it as a DylanWorks for some time.

Smalltalk still has commercial implementations, like Cincom.

https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/

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