Yeah kinda. Akka is an excellent option if you’re in the JVM ecosystem. I find it’s encumbered by a lot of complexity and cost though - which kinda comes with Scala and the JVM. It’s also a kitchen sink that tries to be everything for everyone - Akka was positioned to be the Spring of Scala, after all.

Whereas Erlang/OTP is a very pragmatic, simple language and runtime geared solely towards building distributed services. The gen_* behaviours are awesome and I’ve never seen anything like it (at least in terms of simplicity and practicality) in other languages or runtimes.