Distributed Actor System in Rust
summary
A walkthrough of an actor framework implemented in Rust, addressing challenges from Rust’s static typing, lack of a VM and no reflection. Covers techniques for erasing and later restoring type information for networked messaging, and shows patterns for dynamically creating and registering actor types using procedural macros.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:45About me
- 2:10This talk is not about
- 3:24This talk is about
- 5:42The Type-id Problem
- 8:30Proc Macro to the Rescue
- 14:01Using proc macros we get
- 15:38The Codec Problem
- 17:43Tick - Why?
- 18:16Future with ticks
- 20:32Distributed Actor System
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