Technical
Arc Java SafeTcl Obliq
Supports C-like languages Y N N N
Supports Smalltalk/lisp langs Y Y N N
Automatic storage management ? Y Y Y
Objects with inheritance *ext Y *ext Y
Concurrency (threads,locks) ? Y N Y
TCP/IP API *ext Y *ext Y
Native code generation Y *ext N N
Multi-platform GUI API N Y(awt) Y(Tk) Y(Trestle)
X/Motif Support for GUI API N Y(OSF) Y(Tk) Y(Trestle)
Windows Support for GUI API N *in-dev *in-dev N
Mac Support for GUI API N *in-dev *in-dev N
RPC support ? *in-dev N Y
*ext: a possible extension, but not an integral part of the system
*in-dev: designed and planned, but not yet released