Yes, this is precisely the problem I had - Scala is great, Akka's model seems good, but the mix feels like you loose something along the way. The typed actors

Yes, this is precisely the problem I had - Scala is great, Akka's model seems good, but the mix feels like you loose something along the way. The typed actors stuff does exist, but it's experimental, and the last time I checked they had just thrown away the old version and were working on a new implementation. It seems like it would be better, but it's clearly not done yet.