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Life & fun · May 3, 2016

Go Actor Model, fast distributed actors for Golang

Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin - asynkron/protoactor-go

Go Actor Model, fast distributed actors for Golang launched on May 3, 2016 with 115 votes, #372 of 3,824 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Proto Actor is a distributed actor framework for Go, C#, and Java/Kotlin that enables building concurrent systems. It provides a messaging-based model where independent actors communicate asynchronously across networked machines. The framework is designed for developers who need to build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Proto Actor implements the actor model pattern, allowing developers to structure programs as collections of lightweight, isolated processes that handle messages sequentially.

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