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Akka 2.0 released (Scala and Java concurrency library)

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I must mention that in Finnish the word 'akka' is a derogatory word for 'woman'. It's used the same way as the words 'hag' and 'bitch'.

Also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka_(spirit)

This was also mentioned in passing on the Software Engineering Radio Podcast that they did with Jonas Boner. It came up in the context of discussing Mist and what that word means in German.

Hehe. In India (Maharashtra mostly) Akka is a word used to call a woman - except in India it's said respectfully. One could call their elder sister or older aunt with that name for example.

Where as I only read the article because Akka is the wise and loving Goose in the Swedish Children's story "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" by Selma Lagerlof (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature).

I guess the Finns really don't like the Swedes.

Chances are any one or two syllable word means something bad in some language. Wonder if a search can be built that given a word will try to detect if is sounds like or means something derogatory in all the known languages.

There are plenty of examples from history where products had to be renamed when localized for a region because of unexpected meaning. One recent such naming fiasco is Nigaz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigaz). You'd think someone would do some checks before naming a $2.5B venture...

I wonder if Play 2.0 will be released right behind Akka. I noticed that the release candidates were almost in sync with each other when I was checking out the commit history of Play20 on Github the other day.

I noticed they have already updated to Akka 2.0 final in the current source on github, and commits have slowed down recently. I hope they're close, I've been wanting to use it on a new project.

The 2.0-RC3 that's available now is pretty good and well documented on the Github wiki. You should be fine using it. And the community on the mailing list is very helpful.

The latest version is actually 2.0-RC4 and it includes the final akka release: https://github.com/playframework/Play20/zipball/2.0-RC4

This is not the actual RC4 released zipball, it's just the automatically exported zipball of the play sources tagged with 2.0-RC4.

The difference is that the released tar|zipballs contain also a prefetched sbt cache repository.

Furthermore the zipball has the play version as "2.0-SNAPSHOT", so you have to change that in framework/build if you want to fetch the released 2.0-RC2 binaries

Actor paths are a pretty nice feature. Looking up actors by classname or dealing with a group always seemed kludgy.

However, this approach is less flexible and makes Akka more all encompassing in feel.

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