It may help to know that Smalltalk and Java were implemented on top of Self in one of the last projects done with it; the Smalltalk implementation was faster th

It may help to know that Smalltalk and Java were implemented on top of Self in one of the last projects done with it; the Smalltalk implementation was faster than some of the main commercial ones. https://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/substrate.pdf https://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/substrate.pdf