Is there a version of Smalltalk with Erlang style distributed message passing?

Question

Is there a version of Smalltalk that allows distributed message passing, much as Erlang has? Could Smalltalk be an ideal language if it has this distributed message passing, as Smalltalk also implements its own VM if I am not mistaken?

Answer 1

Have a look at Croquet. Maybe their technology is what you want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project

Answer 2

Everything in Smalltalk is done through message passing. Almost all of it is local of course.

Richard Durr hints at it in his answer, but Croquet have a library called Islands, which is modelled on E's Vats.

Answer 3

There is SqueakElib

• http://www.squeaksource.com/squeakelib.html

• wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6011