Language-assisted Flattening

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ReactiveX

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Akka

I'd say your friend got it basically right for actors (guaranteed deadlock free resilient massive distributed concurrent computation -- note: not parallelism) ala Akka. This is apparently what Alan Kay intended to happen for Smalltalk before he essentially lost control of its evolution. In the actor model, messages are not function calls, because you don't get a value back in the normal sense of a function having a return value. And the only way assignment can technically happen is an actor choosing to alter its own private state directly. (There is no shared state.) This dramatically changes the nature of computation, as demonstrated for decades by Erlang, and in the last decade by Scala's Akka, and seen in the last couple years in ponylang.

#Data Integration #Monitoring Tools #Web And Application Servers 21 social mentions