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Is actor-based really considered top level for Scala? Akka is still a framework and not in the language itself, I'd argue the core concurrency is Java-based thr
by logicfiction 9y ago
Is actor-based really considered top level for Scala? Akka is still a framework and not in the language itself, I'd argue the core concurrency is Java-based thread pooling enriched with Scala's Future type.
That said, I do agree that Akka is heavily favored as the ideal in Scala development as part of Lightbend's take on the Scala ecosystem, and maybe that was mostly your point.
- evacchi 9y agoActors (not akka's) used to ship as part of the standard library. I'd argue it's been the killer app that drove many people in, in Scala's early days. At some point Akka grew bigger and matured so the original actor library was spun off in its own library, basically deprecating it in favor of akka.