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Well it's a lack of training problem.

Someone properly trained with something like Smalltalk will on average output 3x the amount of software as someone trained on something like Java.

There are big advantages to doing it.

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> Well it's a lack of training problem.

The industry spends billions of dollars on developers writing Java. If they could spend 3 times less by simply training developers to use Smalltalk instead, they'd be doing it.

They're not, because that's not the problem.

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> If they could spend 3 times less by simply training developers to use Smalltalk instead, they'd be doing it.

No they wouldn't. While not bad long-term thinking, by the time developers are up to speed with Smalltalk and realizing three times the output, the competition using the ecosystem its developers already knew will have launched something and won over the customers. It doesn't matter how much software you can crank out after you've already lost.