Crate lunatic_runtime

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The lunatic vm is a system for creating actors from WebAssembly modules. This lunatic-runtime library allows you to embed the lunatic vm inside your Rust code.

The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats actor as the universal primitive of concurrent computation. In response to a message it receives, an actor can: make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received. Actors may modify their own private state, but can only affect each other indirectly through messaging (removing the need for lock-based synchronization).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model

Note: If you are looking to build actors in Rust and compile them to lunatic compatible Wasm modules, checkout out the lunatic crate.

Core Concepts

Environment - defines the characteristics of Processes that are spawned into it. An Environment is created with an EnvConfig to tweak various settings, like maximum memory and compute usage.
WasmProcess - a handle to send signals and messages to spawned Wasm processes. It implements the Process trait.

WebAssembly module requirements

TODO

The Message is a special variant of a Signal that can be sent to processes. The most common kind of Message is a DataMessage, but there are also some special kinds of messages, like the Message::Signal, that is received if a linked process dies.

node

plugin

Plugins are WebAssembly modules that can be attached to an Environment. They have 2 tasks:

registry

Registries allow you to define “well-known” processes in the environment that can be looked up by name and version.