Indeed I was merely describing how it behaves within the context of future + ioloop with tokio. I didn't take a stance on future vs actor. In Rust my instinct

Indeed I was merely describing how it behaves within the context of future + ioloop with tokio. I didn't take a stance on future vs actor. In Rust my instinct tells me the difference between actor and future is negligible. Because it compiles down to almost the same thing. But I wouldn't bet my life on it. Note that my understanding of what an actor is might be wrong. I assume an actor is a sort of thread with a main ioloop receiving and sending messages. Which is basically what a tokio ioloop thread is. Atop of which the futures give you an abstractions to compose IO functions more easily.