https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469 Looks like I misread it. While the Actor model wa

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469 Looks like I misread it. While the Actor model was conceived before Erlang, the Erlang actor model was developed in parallel. It isn’t a pure implementation of Actors (everything is an Actor, making it closer fo Smalltalk). Only processes are Actors. It also implies that Akka is not a true Actor model as conceived in the originao ‘73 paper. This goes into greater detail on the history: https://www.labouseur.com/courses/erlang/history-of-erlang-armstrong.pdf https://www.labouseur.com/courses/erlang/history-of-erlang-a... In any case, there are not many contemporary systems that uses these ideas.