https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model, the project is called "pulsar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor_pattern, the projects are Twisted and Tornado What's the difference in the theory a...

When should the Actor Model be used? It certainly doesn't guarantee deadlock-free environment. Actor A can wait for a message from B while B waits for A. Also, if an actor has to make sure its...

I want to play around with actors in python. Apparently, the two most popular alternatives are thespian and pykka. I'm looking for something actively developed and easy to use. Which would you rec...

I searched in the web for a long time and couldn't find the concrete disadvantages of object oriented model which are overcome in Actor model. Please help me with some pointers and explanations on ...

I've seen it mentioned in several places in contexts like Erlang actor model, Groovy actors, Scala actor model etc. What does this refer to?

i have a background in enterprise distributed systems using Messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ and others, though i am relatively new to Actor Model. with that said, i am wondering if it is a...

I am new in scala and actor world. This is what I've learned so far: Scala is functional programming (not purely) and people advice not to use mutable state in scala. But on another hand...

I know that Erlang uses Actor model to support concurrency and Erlang processes are the same as Actors: they send messages, immutable and so on. But according to Carl Hewitt one important thing in ...

I have been trying to understand how actor model and web workers work. In https://dzone.com/articles/html5-web-workers-classic: "Web Workers provide a message-passing model, where scripts can com...

I'm playing with Akka and I have a design in which a supervisor actor has a child playing role A and several children playing role B. I want to define a supervision policy such as A failures are es...

In a 1978 Paper by Hoare we have an idea called Communicating Sequential Processes. This is used by Go, Occam, and in Clojure in core.async. Is it possible to use CSP as an alternative to the Act...

I am taking a course on distributed systems and we have to make our project using Scala. Our instructor told us that Scala is good in the sense that it uses multiple cores to do the computation and...

How I can illustrate Akka actors in UML diagrams? Especially how to illustrate messages passed between actors? Any example will be fine. Thanks.

I'm just thinking about possibility of Erlang for game server. (oh I'm not Erlang expert, just considering stage) This means using Actor Model for game simulation. Of course, most biggest attractio...

I've seen benchmarks of Actor model implementations done in terms of their actors. For example, Akka actors are very lightweight (600 bytes per actor) and millions of them can be created. How...

Well, the title's pretty much it: if I sat a non-techie/my mum/twelve-year old boy/cocker spaniel in front of you and asked you to explain actors to them, where would you start? I ask because...