Aspartam

Minimalistic actor framework based on tokio, inspired by actix.

Aspartam tries to keep it simple and easy to use.

Messages are processed sequentially.

Features

• Asynchronous actors
• Support for typed messages via dynamic dispatch
• Support for asynchronous message handlers, via async-trait
• Actor supervision

Usage

TODO

Aspartam vs Actix

TODO

Why Aspartam

While actix is great, it makes using async/await problematic in message handlers. Workarounds exist but that continues to be a major pain-point.

I decided to create something that feels similar to actix but requires a lot less hassle and has less complexity overall.

TODO

• Maybe something like actix's Recipient
• Consider something like ctx.after_future(fut,closure(actor,fut::Output,ctx)) or AspartamFutureExt::then_for_actor(ctx,closure(actor,fut::Output,ctx) -> fut) to mimic actix's ActorFuture
• Add API to allow running a future after stream ends