In the past, I have had the opportunity to learn and apply Actor-based design (using #akka ) in about 3 production software. I loved the way I could model the behaviour using Actors (and #fsm) using #scala and #java.
As a Rust enthusiast, I was searching for Actor-based libraries and chanced upon ractor (github) , which mirrored the behavior of Erlang's.
I have captured my understanding during and after the exploration of
ractor in the form of tutorials; in 3 parts, just so that reading each doesn't become
too heavy.
Important: this repository replaces the 3 individual repositories that I had
created earlier. Each of those 3 repositories contained one tutorial. They
were in a series named as rust-ractor-tutorial-(1, 2, 3). This arrangement
made maintenance of the tutorials easier but made reading quite cumbersome,
what with all the jumping around repositories. Based upon suggestions
received in LinkedIn's Rust Programming Language forum, I have combined those earlier 3 tutorials
into 1, which is this repository. It walks one through the world
of Actors as implemented by 'ractor' framework.
I have retired the 3 older repositories.
The tutorials are divided into three parts for easier reading and these are in the following directories:
- ractor-tutorial-chapter-1 (README).
- ractor-tutorial-chapter-2 (README).
- ractor-tutorial-chapter-3 (README)
Each of these tutorial-chapters has its cargo.toml and src directories. The accompanying blog is inside README, as well as in the directory accompanying_contents.
In order to run the code, one needs to move to the corresponding directory and issue the command: cargo run.