jacksonoz

This must be the longest hype cycle in human history!

It is comparing programming languages. The study averages over all the language projects, including their choice of preferred toolchains. If there are more effective toolchains available, their lack of usage is clearly factored into the study.

Yes, all the advantages have been there from the start, but they may not be known to most people. It's really a matter of education and public awareness.

Smalltalk is not the only language to face this dilemma. Nearly every new language that comes to market does, as well. For example, Ceylon, Clojure, Crystal, Dart, Elixir, Haxe, Julia, Nim, Rust.