alt Hacker NewsHave you looked at Microsoft Orleans by chance? I'm curious what you think of it. The concept is Virtual Actors by Microsoft research.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/orleans-vir...
I had Claude implement a similar one for me in Rust which I'm pausing for now, I'm prototyping a simpler version of Orleans in Go that I eventually want to port over to Rust as my v2 from scratch. The ideas in Virtual Actors reminded me a lot of Erlang, but simple to use in a language like C# I'm still surprised it didn't take off in other languages.
Honestly, if Go supported message passing between processes and over the network out of the box, it would make for a slightly more interesting language, I still love Go though.
This is an interesting question! I'm not an expert in Orleans but I have looked at it alongside koka. The user defined key vs pid distinction is important and using a user defined key like in Orleans has advantages for keeping track of their virtual actors(grains). Their automatic lifecycle management is nice, but you really have to trust the runtime to know when something is really idle. I think their failure handling with auto state restoration is a mistake, recreating an actor with bad state is a recipe for crashes.
What I have that Orleans is missing is compile time protocol checking, typesd and hash checked remote calls, capability management, cluster authentication, and no stop the world GC. Orleans doesn't have choreography per se, they have sagas as a convention.
Yeah, GO routines are meant to solve different problems than share nothing actors.