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by ecs78 1690 days ago
Distributed actors don’t actually have compiler support. They use a standalone code generator much like GRPC. The plan is to call the generator automatically during a build process using upcoming SPM plugin support.

EDIT: It looks like there is a plan to remove the SPM plugin and make it a first class feature. This work just started and is going through a normal evolution process.

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> Distributed actors don’t actually have compiler support.

I said from the compiler and OS teams -- there are at least two compiler engineers listed on the proposal.

But this is insupportable nonsense anyways: `distributed` is a brand new keyword, there are new rules about how inits work, magic property behavior... I haven't followed the proposal carefully, but there are also new toolchains being generated to enable the feature.