I'd echo this. I worked for a company that made a real-time auction system, based on Akka. It's been frustrating in the years since to program on less powerful

I'd echo this. I worked for a company that made a real-time auction system, based on Akka. It's been frustrating in the years since to program on less powerful foundations. If I were building a system that combined interactive and autonomous processes, I would absolutely reach for Akka again. The one thing I'd love to see is if they could build something like https://temporal.io https://temporal.io on top of Akka. I think it would be complementary to the state machine style model of typed actors and the pipeline model of Akka Streams.