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wmfivyesterday at 6:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've found actors (Akka specifically) to be a great model when you have concurrent access to fine grained shared state. It provides such a simple mental model of how to serialize that access. I'm not a fan as a general programming model or even as a general purpose concurrent programming model.


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tombertyesterday at 8:08 PM

Vert.x has the "Verticle" abstraction, which more or less corresponds to something like an Actor. It's close enough to where I don't feel like I'm missing much by using it instead of Akka.

Weryjyesterday at 9:08 PM

What are your criticisms of actors as a general purpose concurrent programming model?