Akka.net vs FsShelter

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Akka.net		FsShelter
	Project
20	Mentions	-
4,607	Stars	45
0.7%	Growth	-
9.3	Activity	0.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Akka.net

Posts with mentions or reviews of Akka.net. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.

What is the fastest producer consumer model in C#
1 project | /r/dotnet | 6 Nov 2023

akka.net actors. Actors all the way! https://getakka.net
.NET - iskustva s akka.net?
1 project | /r/programiranje | 24 Mar 2023
MassTransit with MSMQ vs RabbitMQ
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 20 Mar 2023

If it's the former you may want to take a look at something like the actor model akka.net with persistent actors (https://getakka.net/articles/persistence/architecture.html). No need of an external message broker or mass transit (which is a wrapper over different message brokers). You could use sqllite for persisting the actors state to recover in case of a restart.
For .NET 6+, is there value in using NHibernate with Sprint.net or should I stick with EF Core and the usual supporting libraries?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 24 Feb 2023

Spring and Hibernate are the goto libraries in Java land and I suspect that's the primary motivation for your colleague's recommendations. It's quite easy to bulldoze someone less experienced with your ideas so be careful of that. I'd avoid both. They aren't bad libraries at all but they have a 'legacy' feel and it will make your application less future proof. Would a distributed system be viable? If so then I'd recommend Akka, there'a .NET port of it that's well supported and maintained.
Learning resource for seniors
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Jan 2023

Is akka a good alternative?
Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
Using functional extensions in production C# code?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 26 Aug 2022

However, I've found that sometimes, they are a little -too- functional. I'm a bit more preferential to Akka.Net's implementation of Option and Try, if only because they have good 'escape hatches' where you interrogate them in a more procedural manner.
Microsoft RulesEngine. Feedback from those that have used it in enterprise environments
3 projects | /r/dotnet | 2 Jul 2022

This project is also what ultimately led to the creation of Akka.NET - I wrote an overview on how our application was built here: https://aaronstannard.com/markedup-akkadotnet/
Questions about network programming with C#
1 project | /r/csharp | 24 Jun 2022

You may also want to take a look at queues (e.g. RabbitMQ) or even something like Akka.NET or Microsoft Orleans.
What does the .NET ecosystem offer in terms of distributed data processing frameworks?
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 10 May 2022

From the title I immediately thought AKKA.NET or Orleans

FsShelter

Posts with mentions or reviews of FsShelter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning FsShelter yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Akka.net and FsShelter you can also consider the following projects:

protoactor-dotnet - Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin

.NET port of LMAX Disruptor - Port of LMAX Disruptor to .NET

Orleankka - Functional API for Microsoft Orleans http://orleanscontrib.github.io/Orleankka

Orleans - Cloud Native application framework for .NET

MBrace - MBrace Core Libraries & Runtime Foundations

IdGen - Twitter Snowflake-alike ID generator for .Net

.NEXT Raft

store-modular-monolith - 🛒 Implementing an “online store” modular monolith application with domain-driven design and CQRS with using in-memory message broker based on .Net Core.