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I've used Akka extensively and beg to differ. It's such a clean departure from traditional concurrent programming and the "let it fail" mentality around it is r

• rektide 5y ago
  I'm wearing an Akka shirt right now! Agreed. ;) Not my realm, but a friend who was way into SDN systems told me some about how Akka powers a vast vast amount of that work (OpenDaylight), extremely well; I could use a refresher on that, it was such a great story to hear! Another example, Microsoft has done fantastically with Orleans[1]. I'd like to propose an actually dead idea: calling ideas dead. That we fail with tech ideas & abstractions is 99.%%% of the time not really reflective of the idea itself. There's survivorship bias- well, I think we need a term for the opposite: didn't work bias. A lot of technologies are dogged by image problems from less than successful pasts. Too often we pop culturally & en-masse accept that specific failures imply general unsuitability, and become fixed, hostile, & negative towards ideas. We should label this phenomenon & understand it better. "Didn't Work Bias" doesn't quite feel like the best fit or reciprocal to Survivorship Bias but it's a start at capturing these prevalent anti-idea sentimentalities. [1] https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/ https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/