The difference is the scheduling. In erlang, processes are preemptively scheduled, in akka they aren't. Erlang goes to great lengths to avoid one process from s

The difference is the scheduling. In erlang, processes are preemptively scheduled, in akka they aren't. Erlang goes to great lengths to avoid one process from starving another. With akka you have to go to some lengths yourself to prevent starvation (e.g. preventing blocking calls in your event handlers).