Actors aren't just about local concurrency, and if a language is attempting to bake them in, they should leave some room for the distributed case in my opinion.
One of the biggest benefits of using actors is that whether an actor exists on the same machine or across the network can be abstracted away from you. You're just sending messages, so you can send a message over the wire and it would be as simple to the developer as sending it locally. Not considering this use case would make it a very limiting language feature.
One of the biggest benefits of using actors is that whether an actor exists on the same machine or across the network can be abstracted away from you. You're just sending messages, so you can send a message over the wire and it would be as simple to the developer as sending it locally. Not considering this use case would make it a very limiting language feature.