More Object-Oriented than Objects
Functional programming avoids the problems associated with shared mutable state by avoiding mutable state. Actor programming, by contrast, retains mutable state but avoids sharing it.
An actor is like an object in an object-oriented (OO) programâit encapsulates state and communicates with other actors by exchanging messages. The difference is that actors run concurrently with each other and, unlike OO-style message passing (which is really just calling a method), actors really communicate by sending messages to each other.
Although the actor model is a general approach to concurrency that can be used with almost any language, itâs most commonly associated with Erlang.[25] Weâre going to cover actors ...
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