[imtringued]

Yes, that type of class is known as "actor".

[cfontes]

As someone with a little experience troubleshooting actor based systems, having 1600 of them sounds (actors not instances) like a nightmare.

[blackoil]

I have some experience with Akka. The amount of praying you have to do during production issues, no surprise it feels like a religion.

We tried it about 4 years back. Maybe there are some better debugging tools now, but for us both learning curve and prod issue pain did not make it worth it.

[vbezhenar]

Some people love erlang.