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The reason is called Java, and having all key Smalltalk vendors pivoting into Java.

Smalltalk was the ".NET" of OS/2, and Visual Age for Smalltalk code browser still lives on Eclipse.

Then there are those Objective-C and Ruby developers still around, heavily influenced from Smalltalk.

I recently got back into Objective-C (first did in 2002) doing some (for hire) framework work on an app that was built in it originally. And it's very refreshing! I've done a lot of C in between then and now, and I almost have to keep reminding myself that it's C under the hood, really.

Is there a Smalltalk that runs on the JVM?

Not that I've read of, but Vanessa Freudenberg created SqueakJS; a javascript system that can run (pretty much) any Squeak based image in your browser. See https://squeak.js.org/run/

https://github.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak

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