> Actors are more like a combination of a channel and a goroutine: when you send something to the actor, you know what the other end is and you know what it does with messages.
I don't think this is the case at all. When sending a message to an address you don't know how many actors are behind that address, and even further you don't know how many addresses an actor has. Actors and addresses have a many-to-many relationship.
I think the power of the Actor model is essentially putting your faith in the system and not caring about when messages get handled, or what order they get handled in - it's just knowing that the message will get handled.
I don't think this is the case at all. When sending a message to an address you don't know how many actors are behind that address, and even further you don't know how many addresses an actor has. Actors and addresses have a many-to-many relationship.
I think the power of the Actor model is essentially putting your faith in the system and not caring about when messages get handled, or what order they get handled in - it's just knowing that the message will get handled.