Akka 3 Akka actor differs from Scala actor

Often people ask: what is the difference between Akka's actor and Scala's actor? The answer here is that, from the Actor model point of view, there is no difference, they all implement the actor model.

Akka actors and Scala actors are both implementations of that model.

All actors model says that your concurrency primitives is actors, which can:

• receive a message and decide what does next depending on the content of the message, including:

• send messages to any actors they know about

• create New actors

and provides certain guarantees, e.g.:

• any actor handle a single message at a time

• messages sent by actor X to actor Y would arrive in the order thay were sent

There is no difference between Scala and Akka actors on this level.

Please refer to the annex for different implementation.

The reason I personally learned Akka's actor is that Spark uses Akka as a message-driven system

Akka 3 Akka actor differs from Scala actor