Telescript [0] is based on this idea, although at a higher level. I wish we could just build Actor-based operating systems and then we wouldn't need to keep reinventing flexible distributed computation, but alas...[1]
We'll keep poorly reinventing distributed computing features until we have a real distributed operating system. We're actually not that far off from it, but good luck convincing a mainline kernel dev to accept your patches.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_langua...
[1] Yes I know Erlang exists. I wish more people would use it.