The bits about multi-node computation reminds me of Racket's Places [0]. Have any other mainstream languages (Racket doesn't count) tried this technique before?

The bits about multi-node computation reminds me of Racket's Places [0]. Have any other mainstream languages (Racket doesn't count) tried this technique before? [0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/distributed-places/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/distributed-places/index.html