So if actors are obsolete, what should I be using ...

# coroutines

[Justin]

So if actors are obsolete, what should I be using in their place? Or am I missing something?

[octylFractal]

iirc only actor {} in particular is, no replacement yet

[Pablichjenkov]

An actor is basically a wrapper over a message queue. Have a wrapper class over a Channel and consumeEach {}

[octylFractal]

yes, equivalent "non-obsolete" code is probably something like receive { channel.consumeEach { ... } }

[Matej Drobnič]

Wait, why are they obsolete?

[octylFractal]

read issue 87: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/87

[octylFractal]

specifically, https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/87#issuecomment-486166393 onward

[Pablichjenkov]

It seems that is risky putting too much effort in creating a full Actor framework just now. Besides some reasonable facts about competence and such. I think making it obsolete is a bit drastic. We cannot run AKKA on Android, at least for Android devs it was useful imo.
On another hand this is an example of a class handling a channel actor like styled.
https://github.com/pablichjenkov/Android-Actor/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/hamperapp/actor/Actor.kt

[Justin]

interesting, thanks!

[bdawg.io]

I would be surprised if they ultimately remove simple actors