Actor Model
Actor Model We’ll explore a concurrency model that makes writing performant, concurrent software much easier than traditional approaches. I’m talking about the Actor Model. In the following sections, we’ll dive into what it is and how it simplifies concurrency challenges that developers dread. History Actor model was introduced in 1973 by Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger of MIT in their paper “A Universal Modular Actor Formalism for Artificial Intelligence”. The Artificial Intelligence being talked about is not the GenAI that we talk about but about computational systems in general. It was influenced by programming languages like Lisp, Simula, Smalltalk(which is still considered by many as one of the best Object Oriented Language implementation). ...