SE-0344 (second review): Distributed Actor Runtime

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Hi everyone. The second review of SE-0344: Distributed Actor Runtime begins now and runs through March 31, 2021. The previous review thread is here. By comparison with the previous revision of the proposal:

  • This version revises the requirements on non-delegating initializers for distributed actors to make binding to the actorSystem explicit in the initializer body, instead of implicitly deriving the binding from the arguments to the initializer.
  • This version makes the identifiers for RemoteCallTarget fully opaque, where the previous revision had explicit APIs for manipulating the underlying Swift mangled name. It is still proposed to use mangled names as an implementation detail by default, though this revision proposal provides further justification while acknowledging the concerns about API evolution, interoperability, and performance that the community raised in the previous review, and outlining how these concerns can be addressed by further work on distributed API versioning and migration.

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The core team has decided to accept this proposal. Thanks everyone!

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