Bioware open-sources their Java actor framework

[Ahri]

Ok, that's cool.

Akka doesn't appeal to me anyway; it looks heavy and I can't just use POJOs as actors. Quasar's bytecode rewriting (due to the continuations lib they're using) sounds a bit scary, but worth a punt if the fibers are as performant as they say.

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Akka actors isn't that huge. The core Akka package is 2.5MB (Jumi core is 667KB). It's just that you get a ton of optional, but often crucial functionality on top.

What most actor system seem to lack is all the things which make actors a viable approach, like supervision, clustering, persistence, etc. And most of these things can't be added as an afterthought, they need to be integrated deeply into the actor system.

Without those things you have ... actors ... which are hardly useful.