Hi,

Just noticed project
Orleans<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans/>,
which is like an actors implementation for .NET, still in preview I think.
It’s supposed to be higher-level than Akka, the description being:

It is actor-based, but differs from existing actor-based platforms by
treating actors as virtual entities, not as physical ones. First, an
Orleans actor always exists, virtually. It cannot be explicitly created or
destroyed. Its existence transcends the lifetime of any of its in-memory
instantiations, and thus transcends the lifetime of any particular server.
Second, Orleans actors are automatically instantiated: if there is no
in-memory instance of an actor, a message sent to the actor causes a new
instance to be created on an available server. An unused actor instance is
automatically reclaimed as part of runtime resource management. An actor
never fails: if a server S crashes, the next message sent to an actor A
that was running on S causes Orleans to automatically re-instantiate A on
another server, eliminating the need for applications to supervise and
explicitly re-create failed actors. Third, the location of the actor
instance is transparent to the application code, which greatly simplifies
programming. And fourth, Orleans can automatically create multiple
instances of the same stateless actor, seamlessly scaling out hot actors.

Any thoughts?
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