[lostintangent]

I _really_ appreciate this reply! Naively speaking, when I look at actors, I just can’t think of why they’d be superior to coordinated queues/channels, except for within an arbitrarily configurable, rules-based system (e.g. game NPC behavior, network routing). But I couldn’t help but assume this was dramatically oversimplifying the problem/missing the point.

If someone were using Go routines and channels, what do you think is the “clear” moment that they would benefit from actors? When the sequence of steps in a workflow are non-deterministic?

[iampims]

Because they scale to more than one node is a very important feature.

[lostintangent]

True! But you don’t need actors to enable horizontal scaling?