With Go 1.26 now released, this bumps the minimum required Go version
from 1.24.11 to 1.25.5 across all go.mod files and updates the
installation documentation with the correct download links and SHA256
hashes for Go 1.25.5 binaries.
The build system (Dockerfiles, Makefile, CI) was already using Go 1.25.5,
so this change aligns the go.mod minimum version to match.
In this commit, we add a readme which serves as a general introduction
to the pacakge, and also the motivation of the package. It serves as a
manual for developers that may wish to interact with the package.
In this commit, we add the actor system (along with the receiptionist)
and the router.
An actor can be registered with the system, which allows other callers
to locate it to send message to it via the receptionist. Custom routers
can be created for when there're actors that rely on the same service
key and also req+resp type. This can be used to implement something
similar to a worker pool.
In this commit, we add the actual Actor implementation. We define a
series of types and interfaces, that in concert, describe our actor. An
actor has some ID, a reference (used to send messages to it), and also a
set of defined messages that it'll accept.
An actor can be implemented using a simple function if it's stateless.
Otherwise, a struct can implement the Receive method, and handle its
internal message passing and state that way.
In this commit, we add two new fundamental data structures: Future[T]
and Promise[T].
A future is a response that might be ready at some point in the future.
This is already a common pattern in Go, we just make a type safe wrapper
around the typical operations: block w/ a timeout, add a call back for
execution, pipeline the response to a new future.
A promise is an intent to complete a future. Typically the caller
receives the future, and the callee is able to complete the future using
a promise.
Olaoluwa Osuntokun