[karma_vaccum123]

Why do people ask questions like this here? let's turn this around for illustrative purposes....why do you use Akka instead of Orleans? Why don't you use Go?

These questions add nothing to the conversation beyond a veiled promotion of someone's pet technology

[bunderbunder]

I'm not sure that's really the purpose. Akka.NET is the incumbent technology. Orleans might be older, but since Microsoft Research is historically bad at popularizing (or even being willing to share) its products, so Akka.NET is the one most people already know about.

Whenever you're seeing a new technology that seems to do the same thing as a pre-existing technology, I think it's perfectly sane and reasonable to ask, "What does $NEW_THING do differently from $THING_I_ALREADY_USE?" For starters, it lets you get up to speed on its merits much more quickly. You only need to go over the memetic equivalent of a patch file rather than having to read the entire spec.

[yazr]

"memetic equivalent of a patch file"

Ooohh i love this sentence ;)

And yes - it is only sane and reasonable to ask.. but should be mandatory !!