I thought that Akka was going to be the missing link on Scala also. So I started investigating and building, and ran into some roadblocks. In particular, I fo

I thought that Akka was going to be the missing link on Scala also. So I started investigating and building, and ran into some roadblocks. In particular, I found that Scala offers actors, but the distributed and highly available cluster aspects that Erlang's OTP offers were missing from Scala. Akka looks like it's going to provide this, at first blush. But after further investigation, it doesn't really provide that, yet, at least it didn't last I checked. So I posted this question on StackOverflow and on the Akka mailing list: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3692680/scala-akka-how-to-develop-a-multi-machine-highly-available-cluster http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3692680/scala-akka-how-to... The question is about how you build fault tolerance, such that your cluster has no single point of failure. At the time, the principal authors of Akka responded saying that you can't right now out of the box, and they're working on that for a later commercial release. Since then I started looking at integrating Scala + Zookeeper, and more seriously considered Go + Zookeeper, and it revived my interest in Erlang.