I have no experience with Akka, but what you write makes sense. Even Clojure concurrency primitives feel weird sometimes when one wants to mix them with low-lev

I have no experience with Akka, but what you write makes sense. Even Clojure concurrency primitives feel weird sometimes when one wants to mix them with low-level Java libraries. Another option is to do it at the language level - see my comment on Erlang.