&gt;<i>Smalltalk advocates never fail to entertain.</i><p>Are there Java advocates still in 2015?<p>In any case, you&#x27;ve missed the whole: &quot;Java is better in number of libraries (obviously) and compiler&#x2F;GC&quot; thing I wrote -- and re-stated it as if it was some kind of counter-argument to my comment.<p>Also, regarding &quot;Java has HotSpot&quot;, you do know that&#x27;s based on the Strongtalk VM right?<p>&gt;<i>Smalltalk never succeeded for a good reason.</i><p>Yes: companies sold it commercially instead of having it widely available, and SUN spend millions marketing Java.