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lmmtoday at 6:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

Well, lots of people have tried it and spent a lot of money on it and don't seem to have derived any benefit from doing so.


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brabeltoday at 12:06 PM

Actors can be made to do structured concurrency as long as you allow actors to wait for responses from other actors, and implement hierarchy so if an actor dies , its children do as well. And that’s how I use them! So I have to say the OP is just ignorant of how actors are used in practice.

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ianbutlertoday at 6:15 AM

Except Akka in Java and for the entirety of Erlang and its children Elixir and Gleam. You obviously can scale those to multiple systems, but they provide a lot of benefit in local single process scenarios too imo.

Things like data pipelines, and games etc etc.

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