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Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework
Ractor provides a fully-supervised, tokio-friendly actor framework for Rust frameworks. It is modelled closely off of Erlang’s gen_server along with extensions such as factories and distributed clusters.
Since we’re trying to model as best we can around Erlang’s practices, message sends in Ractor can occur in 2 ways, first-and-forget and waiting on a reply. This call is a message which provides the response channel (the “port”) as an argument, so the receiver doesn’t need to know who asked. We’ll look at how we construct this in a bit We added a hander match arm for this message type, which sends the reply back when requested.
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