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Re:No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 ... by rdtsc on Thursday October 17, 2013 @12:13AM (#6563615)
> Ok, so issuing a blocking call is "simple, familiar and intuitive". Invoking a Future or a Promise is "so many unfamiliar patterns".

You got it! Great job!

> Yes Sir, with this attitude I hope to make a remarkable progress in my tech career :)

Well one way to not make a remarkable progress in your career is use fads, acronyms, and unnecessarily complicated constructs. Why use futures in that example when actors perfectly model the problem domain? Are you showing off that you know about Futures and they are easy?

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