Dotsero

This is a MVP .NET Actor Model toolkit that follows the Akka API as closely as possible, but as idomatic C#. It is licensed under Apache 2.0.

What's In a Name?

Dotsero, Colorado: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotsero

Currently supported:

1. ActorSystem
   • /user
   • /sys
   • /sys/deadLetters
2. Actor, Props, ActorContext, and ActorRef
   • Any number of typed OnReceive() methods
   • Stack-based Become/Unbecome
3. ActorPath (very lightweight)
4. ActorSelection (currently no wildcards)
5. SupervisorStrategy
   • OneForOneStrategy
   • AllForOneStrategy (not fully implemented)
6. System Scheduler (timers)

• Requires Retlang: https://code.google.com/p/retlang/
• Currently seeing approximately 0.5 million messages per second, with only two threads, on a Intel i7 Quad Core 4700HQ 2.4 GHz.
• See unit tests for usage.

Currently unsupported (big items missing):

1. Configuration
2. EventBus/EventStream
3. Remoting and Clustering (LocalActorRef/RemoteActorRef)
4. Creating and stopping actors is currently not asyncrhonous, and the ActorKilledException/Stop messages are currently not supported. Further, if a message is delivered to a suspended actor (e.g. due to a restart) the delivery currently blocks rather than stashing messages. This is because stashing would require another incoming message to cause the stashed messages to be delivered. A scheduler would be the thing to cause the stash to be emptied. The good news is that the block is a sleep and will likely last only one 1 ms interval.
5. Death Watch
6. Whatever else is not listed above as supported.