Actor Model Comparisons

Commenters compare a presented concurrency or distributed system to the actor model, referencing implementations like Erlang, Akka, Elixir, Orleans, and Go channels. Discussions focus on similarities, differences, advantages, and limitations of actor-based paradigms.

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throweway Apr 14, 2016 View on HN

How does it compare with an actor model?

staticassertion Apr 17, 2017 View on HN

What concurrency patterns have you found yourself unable to express using actors?

sashaafm Oct 11, 2018 View on HN

Would you mind explaining the difference and comparing with the Actor Model paradigm?

drbojingle Jan 22, 2019 View on HN

Sounds like the actor model. Erlang? Elixir? Not really sure where you're going with this :P

artfulhippo May 17, 2021 View on HN

Why is this important? What does it enable that Erlang and other actor implementations cannot do?

juancn Aug 3, 2018 View on HN

I assume you're referring to the Actor model actors not the constrained implementations in popular frameworks, am I right?

espeed Oct 15, 2018 View on HN

You're referring to the distributed Actor model?

esente Jun 3, 2012 View on HN

The actor model tipped you off? :)

EGreg Apr 24, 2023 View on HN

Erlang and any Actors models I think

Qem Feb 27, 2023 View on HN

Sorta like Actor model, but in hardware?