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My point is that you can program with the actor model in Go, if you want to.

• int_19h 8y ago
  You can program with it in C, if you want to. But Go is clearly not designed with that in mind. It's a language that is very opinionated about how concurrency should work. And so whether it's a good opinion or a bad opinion becomes very important.
  • sagichmal 8y ago
    The actor model in Go looks like this: type actor struct { c chan message } func (a *actor) foo(...) { a.c <- message{...} } func (a *actor) run(...) { for { select { case msg := <-a.c: a.process(msg) // ... } } } This is perfectly idiomatic Go for a large class of problems. Therefore it's not correct to say that "Go is clearly not designed with [actors] in mind." To be fair, it is probably correct to say that Go provides CSP natively, and leaves actors to be implemented by the programmer, and that this "hierarchy", that CSP makes a better foundation for actors than vice-versa, is an opinion codified by the language.