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I've been looking at akka recently and it's pretty impressive. It looks like it has most of the killer features of erlang - location transparency, supervision hierarchies, and more. Are there any features erlang has that akka doesn't?
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Akka is a very scalable piece of software, not only in the context of performance but also in the size of applications it is useful for.
Akka gives developers a unified way to build scalable and fault-tolerant software that can scale up on multicore systems, and scale out in distributed computing environments, which today often means in the cloud.
As a conclusion: The actor model itself is what you should adopt first and Akka is a very reliable framework helping you to implement it with a lot of benefits you will receive along the way.
Akka ensures that each instance of an actor runs in its own lightweight thread and that messages are processed one at a time. In this way, each actor's state can be reliably maintained without the developer needing to explicitly worry about synchronization or race conditions.
Disclaimer: I am the PO for Akka
Those are the ones from the top of my head.
On the other hand, using Akka means that you can use Scala, Java, Groovy or JRuby to write your applications.
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