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		pornel 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Safety in an unsafe world How does it prevent two actors from waiting on each other?

rurban 10 months ago [–]

There are no locks. There is no blocking wait, the IO lib is nonblocking throughout. Actors cannot wait.

Messages are guaranteed to be processed ordered sequentially.

https://tutorial.ponylang.io/index.html#whats-pony-anyway

loeg 10 months ago | [–]

There are while loops, though, so actors can still livelock.

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