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Back in the mid-90's, before Java was released to the world, I was using VisualWorks for an university project.
IBM was a big enterprise player with Visual Age for Smalltalk.
A small startup (Animorphic) was making Smalltalk faster (StrongTalk).
There were, of course, other companies searching their piece of the pie.
When Sun started pushing Java to the world, many in the Smalltalk world shifted direction.
Visual Age for Smalltalk architecture became the foundation of Eclipse.
Sun eventually bought Animorphic and Hotspot was born out of StrongTalk VM ashes.
Slowly, other Smalltalk players joined the party.
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Back in the mid-90's, before Java was released to the world, I was using VisualWorks for an university project.
IBM was a big enterprise player with Visual Age for Smalltalk.
A small startup (Animorphic) was making Smalltalk faster (StrongTalk).
There were, of course, other companies searching their piece of the pie.
When Sun started pushing Java to the world, many in the Smalltalk world shifted direction.
Visual Age for Smalltalk architecture became the foundation of Eclipse.
Sun eventually bought Animorphic and Hotspot was born out of StrongTalk VM ashes.
Slowly, other Smalltalk players joined the party.