Actor model & D

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Aug 19 09:20:37 PDT 2013


On 8/18/13 9:24 PM, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
> On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 03:11:00 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
>> Can anyone please explain me what it means for the D language to
>> follow the Actor model, as the relevant Wikipedia page says it does? [1]
>>
>> [1]
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Later_Actor_programming_languages
>>
>
> I assume this refers to task in std.parallelism and the various bits in
> std.concurrency for message passing.
>
> I'm very surprised that D made the cut but Go didn't. I'm even more
> surprised that Rust was included even though it's not even 1.0 yet while
> Go is at 1.1.1 currently.
>
> I wish they had some kind of explanation or code examples to justify
> each one as in other articles, because I'm also very interested...

Go is CSP - isn't that different from Actor?

Andrei


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