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I like the constraints these models impose for some applications, but I don't see them as fundamentally revolutionizing the application development space. You are still ultimately responsible for persisting every last byte of state that these virtual actors embody. Much of this looks like "How to Draw an Owl" [0] to me.

You could tie your own hands in approximately same way in a typical monolithic codebase by spinning out some Actor/Grain base types and enforcing a similar execution model around their implementations.

[0]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl




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