Scott Lystig Fritchie - The wide world of almost-actors: comparing the Pony to BEAM languages

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THE WIDE WORLD OF ALMOST-ACTORS: COMPARING THE PONY LANGUAGE TO BEAM LANGUAGES
by Scott Lystig Fritchie

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS:
Actors
BEAM
Pony

TALK LEVEL: Advanced

ABSTRACT
As Erlang & Elixir programmers, the Actor Model of computation sits comfortably in our minds. Processes that communicate only by message passing makes building concurrent applications easy. It feels natural. We take it for granted.

The inventor of the Actor Model, Dr. Carl Hewitt, says that Erlang does not implement the Actor Model. Erlang co-creators Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding agree with Hewitt. Let's explore Actor Model wrongs & rights with BEAM languages compared to Pony (http://ponylang.io).

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THE SPEAKER - SCOTT LYSTIG FRITCHIE
Stuck in distributed systems tarpits for 30 years

Scott Lystig Fritchie was a UNIX systems administrator until he returned to programming full-time at Sendmail, Inc. While at Sendmail in 2000, a colleague introduced him to Erlang. His world hasn't been the same since. In addition to writing Erlang and occasionally C for the Erlang virtual machine, he has had papers published by USENIX, the Erlang User Conference, and the ACM and has given presentations at Erlang Factory, Code BEAM, and Ricon. Scott works at Wallaroo Labs on a polyglot distributed system of Pony, Python, and C.


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