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by snowboarder63 1213 days ago
Actually I was not familiar with Orleans until now. I think there's probably similar primitives you could build but from my quick 2s read they're solving a higher order problem. Additionally having written an actor lib in the past in .net, I can say they can't match rust for speed but they do have some nice syntax stuff with reflection we can't do.

So it's a tradeoff on stuff like syntactic sugar and speed imo
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pjmlp 1213 days ago
Orleans was born to support Halo's server backend and went from there, they know their stuff regarding performance.

> Orleans is used by Microsoft in Azure, Xbox, Skype, Halo, PlayFab, Gears of War, and many other internal services. Orleans has many features that make it easy to use for a variety of applications.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview

Until Ractor proves itself in similar workloads, it is a tiny bit more than syntax sugar difference.

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