Akka production release is all about `Any`, as in it's untyped, and you have to pattern match on the receiver to the expected type. That's a far cry from Akka

Akka production release is all about `Any`, as in it's untyped, and you have to pattern match on the receiver to the expected type. That's a far cry from Akka Typed [1], the recently released experimental branch, which allows you to match on the "real" type; as a result distributed code is compile time checked...a dream scenario ;-) [1] http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/typed.html http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/typed.html