> > > >> Actors have an advantage when used for distributed systems. If two actors >> on different boxes communicate with each other it is not a problem to make >> communication work without data loss through the principle of supervision. >> Supervision is the idea Joe Armstrong (the creator of Erlang) described in >> his PhD thesis. If two actors communicating with each other, realize >> something in the communication must have gone wrong (timeout waiting for >> ack, etc.), a third supervisory actor is informed which resets both actors >> who then restart from some safe point. There are hierarchies of supervisory >> actors to deal with the problem that also a superviory actor may hang or be >> subject to data loss. >> > It would be a nice project to develop distributed channels in Go where dataloss through the wire cannot happen, because the implementation of those distributed channels relies on supervision. Maybe in Go 1.11 ? :-)
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