Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language underpinning the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human-computer symbiosis." It was designed and created for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Diana Merry, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s.
Smalltalk took second place for "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2017,[6] but it was not among the 26 most loved programming languages of the 2018 survey.