Plenty of people don't like this aspect of Akka. Most of them are using scalaz-stream instead. See http://noelwelsh.com/programming/2013/03/04/why-i-dont-like-

Plenty of people don't like this aspect of Akka. Most of them are using scalaz-stream instead. See http://noelwelsh.com/programming/2013/03/04/why-i-dont-like-akka-actors/ http://noelwelsh.com/programming/2013/03/04/why-i-dont-like-... and http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/actors_vs_futures.html http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/actors_vs_futures.htm...