Design Patterns · Senior · Question 53 of 75

What is the core idea of the actor model?

✓Correct answer: Independent actors with private state communicate only via asynchronous messages, processing one message at a time
2Objects sharing memory with locks
3A UI pattern for animations

Explanation

No shared mutable state means no locks. XState actors and Web Workers follow similar ideas in the frontend.

Further reading

Wikipedia: Actor model ↗

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