Looks impressive. Great work! Very well done site as well.
Coming from Erlang, and familiar with a few basic actor concepts (but not with Scala's Akka terminology), I see a lot of new things and it seems a bit daunting.
I started browsing documentation and looked at:
http://getakka.net/wiki/Addressing
And see new things like:
ActorRef,
^ActorOf,
^ActorSelection,
DeadLetterActorRef,
EmptyLocalActorRef,
ActorCell,
ActorPath (physical and logical).
A URI spec that for "akka://"
From an outsider point of view who knows about sending a message to a process ID which looks like "Pid ! Message" in Erlang, what is the overall philosophy of needing those other concepts. Is it because of static typing, trying to provide global discovery or registration mechanisms?
Coming from Erlang, and familiar with a few basic actor concepts (but not with Scala's Akka terminology), I see a lot of new things and it seems a bit daunting.
I started browsing documentation and looked at:
http://getakka.net/wiki/Addressing
And see new things like:
From an outsider point of view who knows about sending a message to a process ID which looks like "Pid ! Message" in Erlang, what is the overall philosophy of needing those other concepts. Is it because of static typing, trying to provide global discovery or registration mechanisms?