Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly
Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly - lunatic-solutions/lunatic
Lunatic – Actor System for Rust/WebAssembly launched on November 20, 2020 with 141 votes, #196 of 3,461 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Lunatic is an actor system framework for Rust and WebAssembly that enables developers to build concurrent applications. It provides tools for managing distributed computation across multiple processes or nodes using the actor model pattern. The framework is designed for Rust developers who need to handle parallel workloads and is particularly suited for WebAssembly environments where traditional threading models may be limited.
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