Re:Pony – High Performance Actor Programming
by M8 on Sunday May 03, 2015 @05:17PM
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It looks good, but is language alone enough these days? Reminds me of Axum C# research dialect. Microsoft decided to implement it as a framework in the end - Orleans. So did Scala. And wouldn't F# + Akka.NET be just as safe?
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In Akka, message arguments have to be immutable objects - similarly for Erlang; Pony can pass isolated references which can be mutated and passed on, while still being data-race free. Scala is based on Java, and thus it is not data-race free - unless the program has been crafted very carefully.