Even if it did, Ruby is an obvious descendant of Smalltalk.
So you agree with him. Ruby's most powerful feature is the combination of OO and blocks. That's Smalltalk through and through.
MVC has to do with this how? MVC has enjoyed continuous popularity since its invention. And of course partly this is because MVC keeps getting post-facto redefined, much like messaging. The Controller in original Smalltalk MVC translated keycodes into messages to the model. This is pretty different from the role of the controller in Rails, where it acts as the be-all dispatcher. Also, look at the most direct descendants of Smalltalk's MVC concept: Morphic, which is an unmitigated disaster with no controller at all, and Cocoa, which eventually replaced almost all the controllers with three stock ones. Everybody doing anything like a GUI is using MVC, but almost nobody is doing it like Smalltalk originally did, including Smalltalk today.
So, again, you agree with him? MVC has been refined, but it still has a basis in Smalltalk.
JVM and V8 owing their performance to Smalltalk hackers just means that dynamic languages get optimized similarly to each other, and the people who did it the first time had the experience to do it again. There's almost nothing of Smalltalk in Javascript.
Of course he's referring to Strongtalk, which was the basis for the JVM. Javascript is clearly inspired by Self which is a descendant of Smalltalk.
You've got some good points but they'd be easier to take if you weren't being so rude about them.
This is the birth of a cult, not an honest appraisal of progress.
How is it the birth of a cult when as you've said people are moving on?