Yeah, I’ve programmed (not professionally) quite a bit in the various free Smalltalks and from a purely development perspective I could easily see it as a compe

Yeah, I’ve programmed (not professionally) quite a bit in the various free Smalltalks and from a purely development perspective I could easily see it as a competitive advantage. The big question I would have is performance of the VMs and images under load but I guess that would fall under premature optimization. I imagine horizontal scaling or transitioning to Gemstone when needed would be the answer.