Re:Scala 2.10 now available
by dkhenry on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:24PM
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The inclusion of Akka Actors and Futures is _huge_. It really puts Scala in a great place to do massively concurrent programs. I still think I will be pulling in Akka to use their clustering, but of programs that don't require some of the remoting capabilities I can scratch a few lines of my SBT config.
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I think that you will have to keep that sbt line there because akka-actor comes with the distribution but is a separate jar. So you will have to pull that dependency yourself in sbt.
"For Akka users this change does not have visible effects (you will continue to depend on the same artifacts)" http://letitcrash.com/post/37716546018/2-1-spotlight-akka-ac...
On Futures, the change is about unifying the various libraries that deal with it under the same interfaces.