This looks very interesting. I'm curious if the author has looked at Erlang/Elixir — my first reaction on reading this is that it sounds similar to the actor mo

This looks very interesting. I'm curious if the author has looked at Erlang/Elixir — my first reaction on reading this is that it sounds similar to the actor model and the way that Erlang handles state and state updates: as messages to autonomous processes that are modeled as a continuous fold over the message stream.