Latest reason that I'm sure #akka actors are not functional programming: they're freaking hard to test.
@jessitron @jedws Erlang actors aren't any different. I am not sure what might motivate the comments you refer to. Hesitant to speculate.
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@dibblego@jessitron@jedws Actors are all about side-effects, so not FP at all. Also, mutable state and FP aren't mutually exclusive. -
@runarorama@dibblego@jessitron part of confusion is Erlang doesn't allow assignment, each msg yields a new Actor/state; akka actors mutate
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