I should also add that Smalltalk didn't "fail" for its technical faults. It failed (in an oversimplified nutshell) because the companies that owned the Smallta

I should also add that Smalltalk didn't "fail" for its technical faults. It failed (in an oversimplified nutshell) because the companies that owned the Smalltalks had business models of charging per developer seat and their investors would not allow them to "pivot" and drop all that revenue to plug it into a browser for free. Sun could afford to give away Java for free as there was no business model behind what started as a lab experiement. Combine this with "the Internet age is coming" mantra that hit in the mid-90s and you have a perfect storm that put a hold on enterprises moving forward with Smalltalk. The internal priorities of enterprises were either put on hold or changed to address "this new Internet thing".