Looks like all of the interesting development work is going on in the dynamic world. David Griswold posted this on the Strongtalk mailing list a few minutes ago:

The V8 development team has multiple members of the original Animorphic team; it is headed by Lars Bak, who was the technical lead for both Strongtalk and the HotSpot Java VM (as well as a huge contributor to the original Self VM). I think that you will find that V8 has a lot of the creamy goodness of the Strongtalk and Self VMs, with many big architectural improvements

They've released the source code as well. I suspect that .NET is the last gasp of the manifest typing way of doing things.

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