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		RussianCow on Dec 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: News for Ruby 3.2.0 > This can be said of most actor systems. True, but other languages/platforms have better built-in support for immutable data structures and don't force you to fight the standard library to implement a share-nothing approach.

t-writescode on Dec 24, 2022 [–]

You get there pretty fast in Ruby with DryStruct; and, Ruby has .freeze, which can also be helpful.

RussianCow on Dec 24, 2022 | [–]

But you can't use any libraries that maintain mutable state, which, in Ruby land, is many of them.

t-writescode on Dec 25, 2022 | | [–]

A common actor strategy for that is to have a dedicated actor for communicating with that mutable state

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