I'm really excited to see what is essentially a mainstream language trying out actors - whatever they end up with, I expect there will be a lot to learn from.

I'm really excited to see what is essentially a mainstream language trying out actors - whatever they end up with, I expect there will be a lot to learn from. > The answer is: “it depends”. It depends how your or others' code uses Person. If two pieces of code, running concurrently, update Person.name at the same time - your app will crash Damn, I honestly forget what it's like to program with threads in languages that let this happen.