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Without wanting to derail the conversation too much.

Its original designer, Sylvan Clebsch, is nowadays working at Microsoft Research on languages like Verona [0], the last paper he contributed to, which has Guido as well among the collaborators, is about adding regions to dynamic languages, using Python as example implementation,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/dynamic...

[0] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...



Notable the Microsoft has not one but two actor model "frameworks": Orleans (for .NET) and Dapr Actors (for containerized workloads).


The .NET ecosystem itself has another mature actor-based framework in Akka.NET, being probably closest to the Erlang/Elixir supervisor style, in C#/F#.


Highly recommend Akka(.NET). Batteries included framework that scales really well.


Probably even more, most folks aren't aware of how many research is sponsored by Microsoft Research across all their university sites.


Is Verona still receiving attention? Seems like a quiet project.


Last I chatted with Tobias Wrigstad, work is still happening on Verona.


The paper I mentioned, is also done as part of Verona project

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...

Maybe they are now mostly behind MS walls, or have indeed decided to look elsewhere for their research goals.




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