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From the blog of Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner group, we see:

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So Yeah.. I said it. Smalltalk is making a comeback.

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Bottom line:

1) If you have investments in Smalltalk consider the risk of the language to be lower over the next 3 years than the last 3 years.  Smalltalk is cool again.  Is it the start of a long term trend or a fad?  Yet to been seen.

2) If you are BIG fan of dynamics languages (closures, meta programming, and all that cool stuff) then consider giving Smalltalk a look.  You might like what you see.  Its like Ruby but with bigger muscles.  You think Rails is cool? Check out seaside.

In the end we’ll see a up tick in Smalltalk momentum over the next few years.  I’m not entirely sure it will be enough to change the long term trend of a declining developer base but I does my heart good to see a “members only” jacket come back into style nonetheless.

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The simple truth is that for web applications dynamic approaches are massively more productive. Take a look at Seaside (Smalltalk), Grails (groovy) or Rails (Ruby) and its clear that Java has nothing to compare. The DSLs provided by these languages make web development a cinch. Productivity improvements of 2-3 times is not uncommon. This translates to a reduced time to market, and better responsiveness to business needs.
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The domains where Java makes sense are shrinking. Given the performance of dynamic languages nowadays and the ability to inter-operate with high performance system languages like C++, I see Java and C# being squeezed.
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[...] While learning squeak smalltalk and as i immersed myself into the smalltalk culture, i stumbled across Seaside a framework to create web based applications entirely in smalltalk. Seaside kinda blew my mind, i have dabbled with rails it very clean and productive, but Seaside take web based development to a whole new level i never seen highly complex web based applications developed this way. [...]

Found in My journey to Smalltalk. Nicely put.