One has to be remain realistic - sometimes even positively hyped, mature, proven ideas with strong foundations can't break into mainstream. That has happened (is happening) for Actor Model (AM) & I believe that quite likely it will stay like this. It's much to be said for this particular model: it's a foundation of battle-tested, actively developed & professionally supported platforms (OTP, Akka) with strong, positive communities it works well with some other modern paradigms (reactive, functional, loosely coupled) it really solves the problems it was aimed to solve (building resilient & scalable distributed systems) But years keep passing &…