improv

Yet another actor model implementation for JavaScript.

Note: WIP - Not tested, not battle-tested, not full-featured. Don't use on production

Note: Name might change, don't get surprised if it doesn't.

What is Actor Model

TODO

improv's style of implementation is a middleground between Erlang's and Akka's

Supervision is built-in like Akka (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)
Actor implementations are simple one-off functions and they don't loop by themselves.
- This is in contrast to Akka where actors are implemented in an object-oriented nature, and receive blocks are actually overridden functions that loop by default.
- Continuations are a combination of Akka and Erlang, where an actor can repeat its current behavior (like Erlang loops), change it to something else (like become/unbecome from Akka), or stop itself (like stop calls from both Akka and Erlang)
Unlike Akka, there's no ask(msg: any): Promise<any> method

!!! WRITE TESTS !!!
Implement supervision
Implement receive() timeouts
Prevent multiple scheduler calls from creating unnecessary work load
(Maybe) Implement built-in ask pattern
- Requirements:
  - Custom send() messages received through context
  - Inject an ActorRef named sender that can be replied to
  - A global dead letter actor which will be used as the sender for messages sent outside a context

MIT