That was my first reaction as well when i saw the way swift team was laying out the roadmap to actors. The broke all what we consider an "actor system" into pie

That was my first reaction as well when i saw the way swift team was laying out the roadmap to actors. The broke all what we consider an "actor system" into pieces, and implemented every part in different, hopefully orthogonal, proposals.. If that works it's going to be quite interesting. But i feel that it goes against what i've learned from go language design decisions : concurrency is such a deep concern that you have to build the whole language around it, as well as from erlang, where they basically designed the virtual machine around the actor requirements. It's going to be some interesting times..