ACTON-LANG.ORG

We want a programming environment that offers persistence so that programmers do not need to spend time writing code to save program state to disk or a database (which in turn writes to disk, typically). There are few such languages in existence and even fewer, if any, in practical use. This is especially important as handling state persistence is particularly hard when writing distributed systems or working in cloud environments. The programmer should not need to spend much time dealing with state persistence... Acton is a work in progress and still has some way to go to fully deliver on the vision. We want to sell you on the ideas and concepts that we set out to deliver, so that you may be as excited about Acton as we are :)... Checkpointing needs to happen when there are externally visible effects. The actor models makes this trivial to determine since anything that is externally visible is going to be a message to another actor. To avoid explicit state checkpointing calls,..