When I was looking for a name for my now-archived distributed actors system based on Redis ( https://github.com/buybackoff/Ractor https://github.com/buybackoff/

When I was looking for a name for my now-archived distributed actors system based on Redis ( https://github.com/buybackoff/Ractor https://github.com/buybackoff/Ractor), the choice for Redis+Actor was between Reactor, Redactor and Ractor. Then I found a reference to The Diamond Age book (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age) where a ractor is a virtual actor in interactive games and movies working from a computer-provided script. I found it somewhat fitting to the actors abstraction. And the most cyberpunky.