How are Akka actors different from Go channels?
From the Quora.com question How are Akka actors different from Go channels? I have worked extensively with both Akka actors and Go channels/goroutines and would like to offer a few comments. Firstly, it is important to stress that CSP allows rendezvous-based synchronisation between goroutines using channels, and channels can optionally include buffering. When one goroutine attempts to send on an unbuffered channel, it checks whether the other party is present. If not, it sits waiting, during which it consumes no CPU and only a little memory.