Ask HN: Why isn't SmallTalk more popular?

In my experience, I found it a very decent environment to work in. My qualms were related to its less than common syntax. If you ask me, its the same reason lisp dialects aren't more vastly used: they are very different than imperative language syntax, and therefore take more effort to learn.

Because it exists in its own world. You don't get to use your normal editors or command line tools to interact with it. I think that the ease of use interacting with C libraries and the command line correlates well to popularity and the popular Smalltalk implementations fail in this regard.

Why isn't X more popular?

WHY AREN'T YOU WRITING MORE CODE IN X???

If you like a language, use the language. I like Lua, so I code in Lua.

A friend of mine really likes Objective-C, and he writes in Obj-C at all times.

Please write code, it really doesn't even matter what language, just write code.