Personal blog of Stein Magnus Jodal Zola 2011-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 https://jodal.dev/tags/tox/atom.xml 2011-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 2011-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://jodal.dev/2011/03/29/pykka-and-porting-pykka-to-python-3/

<p>This is somewhat of an introduction to <a rel="external" href="https://pykka.readthedocs.io/">Pykka</a>, a Python library implementing the actor model, which I’ve been working on now and then since November. And it’s still just 300 lines of code!</p> <p>The goal of the actor model is to make it easier to develop concurrent programs by removing all shared state and use messaging for all communication. Removing shared state and doing lots of messaging doesn’t make anything easier by itself, but it avoids common problems in concurrent programs like proper lock usage and data corruption (due to the absence of proper lock usage). Also, I believe the actor model makes it easier to reason about concurrent programs, which is a nice property since software development often feels like 10% development and 91% debugging.</p>