Oracle creating FUD around Java... time for Smalltalk?

Over at Joachim's Small World, I'm reading that one of the responses to the Oracle v Google suit over the Java "clone", many people are reconsidering the use of any Java. Joachim observes:

This train of thought, combined with growing interest in dynamic languages, could raise the traction towards technologies like Ruby or Python.

Not sure I’d think of these in the first place, but you get the idea. If you think about future platforms for your project, why not consider Smalltalk? Over in Smalltalk-land, you can get a lot of what you really need for your projects: [...]

Read the rest of the article for good reasons for "why smalltalk", echoing the things you've seen me say here before.

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