I think it's becoming a more commonly held opinion in the Scala community that people often tend to go off the deep end with Akka and I tend to agree with that.

I think it's becoming a more commonly held opinion in the Scala community that people often tend to go off the deep end with Akka and I tend to agree with that. In particular, I think that most of what people use Actors for can be done with Futures, and what can't be done with Futures can most of the time be done with Akka Agents (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/agents.html http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/agents.html). And when I use Actors, I tend to want o wall them off in their own place in the codebase, instead of letting the actor-ness touch multiple parts of the code.