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		grok2 on Jan 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm not feeling the async pressure How do actor model languages (like ponylang) handle this? It seems like not having back-pressure support would be a fundamental issue with the language.

ramchip on Jan 2, 2020 [–]

There’s a detailed article on the topic at: https://ferd.ca/handling-overload.html

grok2 on Jan 2, 2020 | [–]

It seems like the gist is that the responsibility is on the application to be architect-ed (perhaps using one of the various libraries/strategies) to handle flow-control/back-pressure. The language itself doesn't directly help.

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