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It's interesting that he doesn't want to draw too much attention to actors while they are prominent in Chris Lattner's manifesto for Swift [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/lattner/31ed37682ef1576b16bca1432ea9...

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Actors are a bit of a off-the-wall paradigm (https://patterns.ponylang.org/async/actorpromise.html), and I'm (as an old network protocol guy) not sure I'm happy with the attempts to make message passing look like sequential programming (like async/await).

I kinda see where Graydon is coming from. I have this broken half-assed Pony parser combinator thing staring at me right now.

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