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> I sometimes wonder what it would be like if we'd continued down that path. Maybe your laptop would have 10,000 processors in it each with a few MB of RAM and we'd be writing very different programs in languages where message passing was a first class construct.

It sounds a bit like the Erlang BEAM VM to be honest, the BEAM processes tend to be small and there are a lot of them in real-world applications, and message passing is a first class construct (along with some others like ETS which are “cheats” that offer other tradeoffs for specific cases)