To add to Bakul's description:
A key difference in an actor-inspired model compared to a CSP-inspired one
is that identity is subtly different. In Go, channels have identity and can
be referenced. They can have multiple readers and writers. In Erlang, it is
processes who has identity and you can s
Messages get sent to an actor's address and only that actor “reads”
from that mailbox. And there is no buffering. Channels don’t run any
logic (like an actor), they may be buffered and any goroutine with
access to a channel may read from it. All goroutines run in the same
address space. As actors d
Hello All,
I'm new to golang and trying to understand the difference between channels
and actors. From my knowledge:
1. Golang support channels, which is concurrently safe
2. Channels can be shared across goroutines that are running. (very much
similar to messages)
Actors:
1. They are based o
