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Thanks, because from the github page I had no idea what "Actor" meant, though I was interested to know more. Reading the code sample did not give me any better
by uglycoyote 6y ago
Thanks, because from the github page I had no idea what "Actor" meant, though I was interested to know more. Reading the code sample did not give me any better idea what was meant by the word "Actor"
It would be great if every github readme had a "motivation" section at the top. Why not link it there?
- bkolobara 6y agoThanks for the suggestion! I have added the link to the Readme.
- uglycoyote 6y agoThat's great. I also got interested to read about Erlang and the original Actor pattern there. In your motivation doc I clicked the Erlang/OTP link to the main Erlang page, but I kind of had the same problem there, of having a hard time finding some light reading introducing the motivation of Erlang. Their documentation section doesn't immediately yield anything that looks like quick reading to understand the motivation or design philosophy. I could not figure out how to navigate https://erlang.org/doc/ https://erlang.org/doc/ to find introductory material. Do you have any pointers to good reading that would introduce the Actor pattern in Erlang?
- scns 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model?wprov=sfla1
- pdimitar 6y agoYou might be better served if you read Elixir's official tutorials. They explain it (although I'm not sure which of them focused on that aspect; but they are only a few so you should be able to find the needed material easily).