Oh okay, sorry I misunderstood your comment the first time. The rationale for why Rich Hickey didn't go for the actor model are actually documented here: https

Oh okay, sorry I misunderstood your comment the first time. The rationale for why Rich Hickey didn't go for the actor model are actually documented here: https://clojure.org/about/state https://clojure.org/about/state I agree with you, that the JVM also would have probably made it more difficult to incorporate and leverage, though Scala seems to have pretty successfully done that, and Fantom has gone that route as well successfully (though the language is niche) on the JVM. So I'm not totally sure either.