[darksaints]

I don't think the scala crowd scoffs at Akka because they are beholden to pure functional programming. The pure FP crowd is actually a minority...significant enough to acknowledge, but not enough to make or break anything about the community.

The real problem with Akka is that, at least until very recently, you had to abandon any semblance of type safety if you used it. That was very frustrating to work with. I can take or leave pure FP, but you can pry my strong static typing from my cold dead hands.

[AzzieElbab]

I wouldn’t say all type safety. It just couldn’t prevent you from sending unhandled messages to actors