JoeHegarty

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   by JoeHegarty 4y ago

   I think the JVM and particularly Java are in desperate need of improvements to the concurrency model. When I compare the concurrency model on the JVM (and especially Java itself) to the modern competition from the likes of GoLang and C# the
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   by JoeHegarty 4y ago

   Many actor frameworks (including Orbit, though I advise you don't use it for the reasons in my above messages) are strictly single threaded in that only one thread can operate on an actor at any one time, and by default they are also n
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   by JoeHegarty 4y ago

   While in general I agree with that philosophy, it doesn't really apply in this case. When Orbit 1 was initially developed, Orleans was not open source, so the initial implementation was based off the Microsoft Research Whitepaper. In o
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   by JoeHegarty 4y ago

   So, I'm the original lead developer of this project. This was meant to be a followup to the original version of Orbit which now lives on as orbit-legacy on GitHub. Unfortunately other priorities have meant this project hasn't proc
5. 5.▲
   by JoeHegarty 4y ago

   Thank you for your kind words. I do indeed still work on networking stuff.
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   by JoeHegarty 11y ago

   Yeh. This is BioWare's first open source project but it is not EA's.
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   by JoeHegarty 11y ago

   I can assure you it isn't an April Fools joke :)