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- Actix - Actor framework for Rust
- Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM akka.io
- Akka.Net - Akka.NET is a professional-grade port of the popular Java/Scala framework Akka distributed actor framework to .NET. getakka.net
- CAF: C++ Actor Framework - CAF is an open source C++11 actor model implementation featuring lightweight & fast actor implementations, pattern matching for messages, network transparent messaging, and more.
- Comedy - Node.js actor framework.
- Microsoft Orleans - Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building robust, scalable distributed applications
- Microsoft Service Fabric Reliable Actors - Reliable Actors is a Service Fabric application framework based on the Virtual Actor pattern. The Reliable Actors API provides a single-threaded programming model built on the scalability and reliability guarantees provided by Service Fabric. Docs, Service Fabric
- Microsoft Dapr Actors - Dapr runtime provides an actor implementation which is based on Virtual Actor pattern. The Dapr actors API provides a single-threaded programming model leveraging the scalability and reliability guarantees provided by underlying platform on which Dapr is running. Dapr
- Orbit - Distributed systems framework for the JVM by @electronicarts. www.orbit.cloud
- Orleankka - Orleankka is a functional extension for Microsoft Orleans framework. It provides a message-based API similar to Akka/ProtoActor, carefully layered on top of the Orleans (that's what in a name). Orleankka is an excellent choice for use-cases which can benefit from composable, uniform communication interface, such as CQRS, event-sourcing, FSM, etc.
- ProtoActor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin proto.actor
- Pykka - Pykka is a Python implementation of the actor model, which makes it easier to build concurrent applications www.pykka.org
- Quasar - Fibers, Channels and Actors for the JVM. docs
- Riker - Easily build efficient, highly concurrent and resilient applications. An Actor Framework for Rust. riker.rs
- Rotor - Event loop friendly C++ actor micro-framework
- SObjectizer - SObjectizer is one of a few cross-platform and OpenSource "actor frameworks" for C++. But SObjectizer supports not only Actor Model, but also Publish-Subscribe Model and CSP-like channels. The goal of SObjectizer is significant simplification of development of concurrent and multithreaded applications in C++.
- Tarant - Fullstack composable actor system for Typescript/Javascript implementing an extensible framework that allows to focus in domain logic and delegate the rest to the platform.
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- Microsoft Research - Orleans Virtual Actors - Project “Orleans” invented the Virtual Actor abstraction, which provides a straightforward approach to building distributed interactive applications, without the need to learn complex programming patterns for handling concurrency, fault tolerance, and resource management.
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Last modified 26 January 2026