The Smalltalk community is an artifact of the pre-Internet days. See Forth or Lisp for the same result. Communication was slow, in the form of publications and

The Smalltalk community is an artifact of the pre-Internet days. See Forth or Lisp for the same result. Communication was slow, in the form of publications and you couldn't get your hands on actual code (which probably wouldn't run on any of your machines anyway). See the many Unix clones before Linux. The difference is that Linux came along when you had GNU code to avoid having to implement ls, ps, etc yourself, you had many people with 386 PCs and you had the Internet to work together without having to be all in the same room (not to mention not having to set up a company to sell CD-ROMs, though other people did that for Linux). By the time languages like Python and Ruby came along it was a different world and they could be more Linux-like in terms of community and less QNX/Coherent/Idris/BSD/Irix/AIX/Solaris/... Putting a splintered community back together is not an easy task. Note that Squeak, Pharo and Cuis deviate from the ANSI Smalltalk standard in the same ways (Traits, {....} syntax for runtime collections).