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Has the Self language seen use outside of the computer research community?


Are there any non-research groups or projects which have used the Self language in some capacity?


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  • I have browsed a lot considering this topic and found only research, no commercial application.

    However: Self has certainly influenced beyond the research-community, most importantly by inspiration (JavaScript's prototype-object-system), people, UI (Morphic in Squeak and Lively) and JIT (e.g. the Just-In-Time-Compiler inside the Java Hotspot-VM)