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I really enjoy working with Swift but after looking at this Actor proposal I think I agree with you. It seems like you'd always want to use actors? Unless you s

• ogre_codes 6y ago
  > It seems like you'd always want to use actors? My impression is that when working with Swift your first tool of choice should be a value type, so a strict or an enum. Actors would only be desirable when you need class-like behaviors and need concurrency. Maybe I’m missing something, but I suspect many of us will never use actors directly at all. I certainly don’t see any parts of my code which demand this kind of structure.
• viktorcode 6y ago
  You'll want actors if you have shared mutable state. But the most common usage of concurrent programming will be covered with simple async / await calls.