Akka.js: towards a portable actor runtime environment

Multiple mature implementations of the actor model of concurrency exist. Besides several ones available for the Java Virtual Machine, there are others, for example, written in SmallTalk or in C++, targeting native platforms or other virtual machines. Recently, runtime environments for platforms such as GPUs have also appeared. However, so far, no full-featured actor runtime environment has allowed actor programs to run, unchanged, on both Java and JavaScript virtual machines. This paper describes our ongoing effort in providing a portable implementation of the widely-used Akka actor framework. Keywords Actors, Portability, Akka, Scala, Java, JavaScript

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: AGERE
• Authors: Gianluca Stivan, Andrea Peruffo, Philipp Haller
• Keywords: AGERE 2015