Functional Concurrency with the Actor Model - F# Part 4 [Episode 004]

In this episode we learn about the Actor Model and use F#'s MailboxProcessor to create a game loop for our text-based adventure game. We'll also briefly cover a few more F# features like recursive functions, computation expressions, classes and exception handling.

You can download the code for this episode at https://github.com/thedevaspect/aspect-fsharp

Sections:

• Introducing the Actor Model [00:33]
• Introducing the MailboxProcessor [1:28]
• Creating a MailboxProcessor [3:35]
• Recursive Functions [4:19]
• Computation Expressions [4:52]
• Defining a Message Type [5:51]
• Updating the World State [7:13]
• Sending a Message [10:57]
• Defining a GameEngine class [14:00]
• Concurrent MailboxProcessors [16:31]
• Catching Exceptions [17:38]
• Making the Player Walk [18:09]
• Resetting the World State [23:31]

Links:

• Actor model on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
• Akka.net: http://getakka.net/
• Microsoft Orleans: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/

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