It's interesting how the ideas of the Smalltalk and Lisp systems of the 70s and 80s get reintroduced over time, but they're never fully embraced, even though so

It's interesting how the ideas of the Smalltalk and Lisp systems of the 70s and 80s get reintroduced over time, but they're never fully embraced, even though some of their features make it into the mainstream. Emacs would be an exception. Makes you wonder where Smalltalk-inspired systems would be today if they had the kind of support popular languages have received. Imagine Smalltalk receiving the kind of attention Java, Python or Javascript have the past 20 years.