[snovv_crash]

Can you give another popular implementation of the actor model as a counterexample? Happy to learn, but I care more about what can practically done for actual industrial use cases than what can be done on paper or behind closed doors somewhere with critical details for 3rd parties missing.

[ModernMech]

In terms of general actor model implementations, there’s the BEAM VM, Akka for Java, and even Rust’s Tokio async system is backed by the actor model.

Your point is taken about industrial robotics lacking proper tools here —- it’s often the case that industry is about 10-15 years behind research in the field of robotics. But ROS is already being used in industry, and I imagine in 15 years industry will enjoy improved tooling currently being used in research labs to support better testing and reliability in robotic systems.

[snovv_crash]

The people I've worked with in the drone space who actually deliver working products won't touch ROS with a 10-foot barge pole. There are plenty of people using 10x the resources to deliver 10% of the product who are embracing ROS though, and 90% of the work is getting all the different ROS components to play nicely with each other at the same time. Never again.