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Re:Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1 by weehoo on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:31AM (#27116010)
What is the invention? Honest question, not familiar with this stuff. Comments make it hard for non-experts to follow the discussion.
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Re:Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1 by tempodox on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:35AM (#27116030)
Carl Hewitt's Actors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

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Re:Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1 by ProfHewitt on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:29PM (#27121679)
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article (that I wrote many years ago) is way out of date :-(

See the following for Actors:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003

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Re:Swift Actors: A practical example, part 1 by jb1991 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:37AM (#27116045)
With regards to Elm and some others, you have Functional reactive programming, reactive programming, Rx, it goes by a variety of names. It’s most famous for transforming UI development some 8? 10? years ago with the widespread adoption of React. But it’s been around longer in various forms. Implementations can widely vary but the general concepts are very similar.

Actors are something different.

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