[elgertam]

I'd rather have a capability-based distributed system that is agnostic about persistence as long as capabilities are, well, capabilities.

A friend of mine is working on Syndicate[0], and I find it interesting. Not really an OS metaphor; more like distributed, polyglot actors with shared memory secured via capabilities. I think of it sort of like the OSI model's missing session layer.

Also, if I were proposing a distributed system to my boss, I'd probably prefer a reference to "Syndicate" over "Cthulu."

[0]https://syndicate-lang.org/