Smalltalkers used to complain that:

    Smalltalk uses less code to do the same thing.
    Smalltalk lets you offload bookkeeping to the runtime.
    Smalltalk code often runs faster for actual business workloads.
    Smalltalk lets you add features faster with fewer bugs.

    Why Java? Because marketing.

But doing this is was a waste of community time and energy. A better thing to do is to build cool stuff.