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I think this was the first issue of Byte I bought, I remember hoovering up every little detail at the time.
dartlang.org is the modern heir-apparent to the Smalltalk language, backed by Google, and gaining a lot of traction.
Though Smalltalk is quite alive and happy in a niche way. I use pharo.org, but there's also Squeak, VisualWorks and a few others.

There's some good recent work on compiling to JavaScript, which seems to be the universal solvent these days.