Hi,

I am relatively new to Ruby, so pardon me If i say something stupid.

Perhaps its been discussed before, but I was wondering if we can have
scala/erlang like actors implemented in ruby-core itself.

I suppose these actors will run on native threads internally, which
Ruby2 will support, but users will write code that uses message
passing and unshared states for concurrency.

Ruby VM will take care of scheduling and running these actors and
hence freeing the user from mess thats called "Threads".

I believe one can obviously write this actor library outside the core
and yet achieve the same functionality, but having it as a part of
ruby standard will make be good.

I saw Fiber  and was clearly blown away and it looked like, with Fiber
one can do something like stackless python tasklets(I think, I am yet
to understand Fiber completely, so i may be off by a mile or so, but
if one can make it more clear for me, i would be thankful).

Thanks for great work, all of you.





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