actix
Actor framework for Rust. (by actix)
protocol
Easy protocol definitions in Rust (by dylanmckay)
| actix | protocol | |
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| 19 | - | |
| 9,211 | 193 | |
| 0.2% | 0.0% | |
| 8.1 | 0.0 | |
| 6 days ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
actix
Posts with mentions or reviews of actix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-06-02.
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Goroutines in Rust
That's it. Everything else — async/await, actors, work-stealing executors, lock-free data structures — lives in the ecosystem (tokio, rayon, crossbeam, actix, etc.).
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Asynchronous Rust 🦀 - RustConf 2025 | Day 1
Okay, so I need to talk about something really neat I've learned today - and yeah, long time Rustaceans may scoff at me for this. But the Actor Model is something that I am finding incredibly useful. So what is an Actor Model? Well it's a pattern in Software Development when building concurrent programming. Basically what you are doing is organizing code around independent actors that communicate with each other through passing messages (using stuff like mpsc). The entire actix framework is an Actor framework for Rust (the one I used the most is actix-web).
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Concurrency & Fault-tolerant In Distributed Systems
Similarly, in the Rust ecosystem, frameworks like Actix and Ractor emerge, leveraging Rust’s safety guarantees while aiming to mimic BEAM’s ability to manage failures with supervision hierarchies. I don’t think Actix allows easy communication across nodes, but Ractor is actively working to get a production-ready cluster module.
- Ractor – a Rust Actor Framework
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
9. Actix
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Keyword Generics Progress Report: February 2023 | Inside Rust Blog
I think it's fairer to say the language got so much more powerful that there wasn't any point making actors a language feature when they can be built from existing orthogonal language features. You're probably looking for actix (not actix-web, just actix). There's also Lunatic built in Rust but supporting any actors compiled to WebAssembly.
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An Open Source Rust SNMP Simulator
Actix is an actor framework for developing concurrent applications built on top of the Tokio asynchronous runtime. It allows multiple actors to run on a single thread, but also allows actors to run on multiple threads via Arbiters. Actors can communicate with each other by sequentially exchanging typed messages.
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Modern JVM Multithreading • Paweł Jurczenko • Devoxx Poland 2021
I’ve seen frameworks for c++ (https://seastar.io/) and rust (https://github.com/actix/actix) which support what you’re describing out of the box.
- Scala isn't fun anymore
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Anyone using Actix?
The actix repository on github doesn't seem to be very active, and everyone seems to be focused on actix-web instead, is anyone out there using plain actix or any other actor-model implementation in Rust?
protocol
Posts with mentions or reviews of protocol.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning protocol yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing actix and protocol you can also consider the following projects:
tokio
MIO - Metal I/O library for Rust.
libpnet - Cross-platform, low level networking using the Rust programming language.
Wire - A rustic tcp + serialization abstraction.