The original idea of Smalltalk was very much that :) Sadly, hardware limitations of the time did not allow Smalltalk to be implemented this way. Erlang was like

The original idea of Smalltalk was very much that :) Sadly, hardware limitations of the time did not allow Smalltalk to be implemented this way. Erlang was likely the first generally available implementation if the idea. (Now you write in Elixir for the same VM.)