As other people here have said, Java was a death knoll to large Smalltalk adoption. I had some early experience. A Xerox Special Information Systems salesperso

As other people here have said, Java was a death knoll to large Smalltalk adoption. I had some early experience. A Xerox Special Information Systems salesperson gave me a one month Smalltalk license for my 1108 Lisp Machine. I really enjoyed it but I had already gone down the Lisp rabbit hole. Years later, a friend at Parcplace gave me a license but I got sucked into the Java world soon after (Sun had a link for a year on their main Java web page to a blog article I wrote on Java; for about 10 years I was the number one search result for 'java consultant'). I am back to using Common Lisp almost exclusively for my own projects and research but I do enjoy Pharo Smalltalk, and can't help but wonder if a free Pharo had been available in the mid to late 1990s how that might have changed things. Probably not much because Java does fit a good enterprise niche, but with the high license costs of Smalltalk, that war was lost.