Akka 2.0 released (Scala and Java concurrency library)

http://akka.io/news/2012/03/06/akka-20-released.html

by vladev • 14 years ago

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pasiaj• 14 years ago

I must mention that in Finnish the word 'akka' is a derogatory word for 'woman'. It's used the same way as the words 'hag' and 'bitch'.

Also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka_(spirit)

ryanoneill• 14 years ago

This was also mentioned in passing on the Software Engineering Radio Podcast that they did with Jonas Boner. It came up in the context of discussing Mist and what that word means in German.

blinkingled• 14 years ago

Hehe. In India (Maharashtra mostly) Akka is a word used to call a woman - except in India it's said respectfully. One could call their elder sister or older aunt with that name for example.

leejoramo• 14 years ago

Where as I only read the article because Akka is the wise and loving Goose in the Swedish Children's story "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" by Selma Lagerlof (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature).

I guess the Finns really don't like the Swedes.

rdtsc• 14 years ago

Chances are any one or two syllable word means something bad in some language. Wonder if a search can be built that given a word will try to detect if is sounds like or means something derogatory in all the known languages.

There are plenty of examples from history where products had to be renamed when localized for a region because of unexpected meaning. One recent such naming fiasco is Nigaz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz). You'd think someone would do some checks before naming a $2.5B venture...

jonaldomo• 14 years ago

commercial is spelled incorrectly on the top right menu.

nek4life• 14 years ago

I wonder if Play 2.0 will be released right behind Akka. I noticed that the release candidates were almost in sync with each other when I was checking out the commit history of Play20 on Github the other day.

atto• 14 years ago

I noticed they have already updated to Akka 2.0 final in the current source on github, and commits have slowed down recently. I hope they're close, I've been wanting to use it on a new project.

benmccann• 14 years ago

The 2.0-RC3 that's available now is pretty good and well documented on the Github wiki. You should be fine using it. And the community on the mailing list is very helpful.

theatrus2• 14 years ago

Actor paths are a pretty nice feature. Looking up actors by classname or dealing with a group always seemed kludgy.

However, this approach is less flexible and makes Akka more all encompassing in feel.

Akka 2.0 released (Scala and Java concurrency library)

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