I remember in the 90s Smalltalk was going to be the next big thing, IBM were all set to throw their weight behind it with VisualAge as the next big enterprise d

I remember in the 90s Smalltalk was going to be the next big thing, IBM were all set to throw their weight behind it with VisualAge as the next big enterprise development tool... Then Java happened and IBM ditched Smalltalk and leaped on that bandwagon instead and the rest is history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge