You are correct: VAST was in Smalltalk. VAC++ was ALSO in Smalltalk. And the first VAJAVA? Also Smalltalk. They ultimately rewrote it in Java and it became Ecl

You are correct: VAST was in Smalltalk. VAC++ was ALSO in Smalltalk. And the first VAJAVA? Also Smalltalk. They ultimately rewrote it in Java and it became Eclipse. It required 8MB to be useful but 16MB (or more, which was unheard of) was preferable.