Current state

Current state, not comprehensively listed, but items of some noteworthiness:

the basic Acton language is mostly there
- normal language features work, you can use Acton to implement programs
- there may be syntax changes
compiler error messages leave quite some room for improvement
very little documentation :/
tiny standard library
- join the movement and write a library! :)
actor snapshotting and resumption of computation to/from the distributed database
- fundamentals in place
- the implementation of actor migration and placement in the new C RTS is currently under way
  - this is a feature that existed in the old Acton RTS POC, so it is a sort of proven concept but needs to be reimplemented in the C RTS
the distributed backend does not yet support persisting data to disk
- the database and distributed queues are all in-memory only for now
- but its distributed, so hey, dont turn off all your machines at once ;)
not possible to live upgrade data in database
- we will leverage the Acton type system to detect when live upgrades are possible or when data migration needs to happen
- assist user in writing data migration code
- need to migrate actor state & actor messages in flight!

Future road map

This is not a promise of delivering any feature at a certain point in time. It's to give you a rough idea of what the future might hold.

unify class and actor syntax
improve compiler performance, mainly in type inferencing
implement common modules in a standard library
support package management, e.g. dependencies in Acton projects with automatic downloads from remote repos etc
cross-compilation support
improve run time performance, in particular around GC
many many fixes on the path to a mature language