> Still, it's sad that Smalltalk & company haven't received the VM optimization attention that JS has. Well...if you consider that the heritage of V8 in Node.j

> Still, it's sad that Smalltalk & company haven't received the VM optimization attention that JS has. Well...if you consider that the heritage of V8 in Node.js kind of goes back to StrongTalk, I'd say Smalltalk has received more of it than perhaps many people think. Unfortunately StrongTalk didn't really succeed on the market for the same reasons as many other Smalltalk implementations - proprietary nature and exclusivity doesn't really help you in the long run against worse-but-cheaper-and-more-accessible solutions.