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correction: > other mainstream languages

• saagarjha 6y ago
  Are there non-mainstream languages with more tooling? Seems like it would be a bit surprising if there were…
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    I guess they meant Smalltalk and Common Lisp commercial endeavours of the 90's. And indeed, there are a couple of things that Java and .NET still don't do.
    • erik_seaberg 6y ago
      It sounds like Sun acqui-hired some people who worked on Self and Strongtalk to get those ideas into the HotSpot JVM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongtalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongtalk
      • pjmlp 6y ago
        They did, some of them went to work on V8 and Dart 1.0 VM afterwards.