alt Hacker NewsLinda and Syndicate figured this out - it’s just that most engineers are not programming language designers or researchers, and most researchers are not designing robust scalable language implementations.
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It's crazy to me that Linda came out 40 years ago. I think our field is completely blind to what was achieved in the past.
Smalltalk is to me the most obvious case where people somehow don't realize we had a fully live environment, where the entire IDE (or really the whole operating system) could have open heart surgery done on it while it was running, in the late 1970s!
And that's a language that is at least somewhat in the public consciousness, languages like Linda? Nobody knows them. Synchronous languages like Lustre and Esterel? Some engineers know them (and pay good money for them), but not software engineers.
Linda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)
By Syndicate you mean syndicated actors?
Thank you for pointing me to Linda -- fascinating and my mind is popping with fun projects related to this model. It actually seems quite spiritually similar to "Bank Python" (https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html), but more elegant.