Out of curiosity (not much experience with Actor systems), do these systems solve a different problem than having disparate processes communicate by sticking a distributed message queue between them? From my naive point of view it seems like alot of the scaling and fault tolerance concerns nowadays can be solved in any language, by having a queue be the interface between two services.
Same question applies to Erlang, which I realize is not exactly an actor system as per the below comment, and has a much more sophisticated error recovery story with supervisors, but the general question holds.
Same question applies to Erlang, which I realize is not exactly an actor system as per the below comment, and has a much more sophisticated error recovery story with supervisors, but the general question holds.