> Smalltalk wasn’t the only casualty of the “Javapocalypse”: Java also marginalized Eiffel, Ada95, and pretty much everything else in the OOP world
I think it stifled one set of languages and helped others, while helping the "enterprise software" c++ crowd acclimatize to 70s era inventions things like memory safety and garbage collection. Python, Ruby, and JVM langugaes like Clojure and Scala were helped I think.
> Smalltalk wasn’t the only casualty of the “Javapocalypse”: Java also marginalized Eiffel, Ada95, and pretty much everything else in the OOP world
I think it stifled one set of languages and helped others, while helping the "enterprise software" c++ crowd acclimatize to 70s era inventions things like memory safety and garbage collection. Python, Ruby, and JVM langugaes like Clojure and Scala were helped I think.