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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
when i started writing gnt, i was thinking more green threads than actors tbh, but the way it evolved, i realised actors are actually just a good way of doing it from a performance perspective.
this did surprise me a bit, because i have written quite a lot of erlang and it is not what you'd call blazing 🔥 fast 🚀, even if you had no sense of irony.
that it comes with a nice programming model attached is pretty gravy. you can write synchronous-looking programs and get it all async.