RubyConf 2008: Dramatis: Actors for Ruby
Multicores. Distributed web services. Clouds. Pick your favorite buzz word, but pretty much any way you slice it, it's concurrent programming: multiple things happening all over the place, all at the same time. Until recently, this pretty much meant threads and sockets. But then the Prags published Programming Erlang and a lot of people heard about an alternative model (not that Erlang or the a...