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Building Halo 4, a Video Game, Using the Actor Model

• M8 12y ago
  1. Akka, Erlang, Orleans are not using Actor Model. They are using something that resembles it, e.g. having primitive data types instead of using actors to represent them. Not everything in them is actor - just the very coarse code constructs. 2. To me Halo 4 is the client-side part. I seriously doubt they have used any Orleans there and would bet it is a very monolithic old-school C++ app, thus the title is misleading.
  • xyzzy123 12y ago
    If Akka, Erlang and Orleans are not using the actor model, what would you consider to be a language / runtime which does?
    • M8 12y ago
      There isn't one.
• rikkus 12y ago
  I see presentations about Orleans being used for Halo 4 but are there any examples of real world use with more detail or source?
  • Maarten88 12y ago
    We are using Orleans in the backend of a mobile app and website. We are still building, but I like it so far... It makes it very easy to synchronize data to multiple viewers and send updates to the client (using sockets and push notifications) as events happen. Like Firebase or Meteor, but implemented differently.
• stuaxo 12y ago
  This didn't seem to contain much information..