[ANN] YAActL 0.2, Yet Another Actor Library (built in Julia)

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I opened another topic:

JuliaActors: a road to an Actors ecosystem

Following the discussion in another thread now we have JuliaActors, a yet small Julia GitHub group of enthusiasts dedicated to build an actors ecosystem in Julia. Since this is not anymore a discussion about one library, I open a new topic. We have concluded that we should build a Julian approach on the classical Actor Model: The Classic Actor Model formalises the Actor Model in terms of three primitives: create, send and become. The sequential subset of actor systems that implement this mode…

I will pull in some of the good stuff of YAActL into Actors.jl in providing the first two steps described in the roadmap but not all. Actors.jl should be more minimalist than YAActL, e.g.

• it does not need two APIs,
• Dispatch modes are not necessary, I will go with “full dispatch”

But foremost it must provide a sleek interface. I can use Circo’s onmessage for plugging in a message protocol and an API similar to YAActL’s. This then can be used by other actor libraries.

After that I will decide how to proceed with YAActL.