[freck]

This blog post is an announcement for a wide audience. In the proposal[1], which gives detail on motivations and implementation, there is an "Acknowledgements & Prior Art" section that mentions Akka, Orleans, Erlang, and Elixir.

[1]: https://github.com/ktoso/swift-evolution/blob/distributed-re...

[alexashka]

Ah yes, they acknowledge it in a sentence down on page 37 in a document only people paid by apple read top to bottom.

Thank you. That really changes things.