lisp-actors
A Common Lisp implementation of transactional Hewitt Actors for building highly concurrent, thread-agnostic, and secure distributed systems.
What is lisp-actors?
Lisp-Actors is a Common Lisp library that implements the Transactional Conventional Hewitt Actors model for concurrent and distributed programming. It provides a thread-agnostic way to build highly scalable systems using message-passing actors, abstracting away threads, locks, and callbacks. The library includes secure network communication with post-quantum cryptography and enables parallel execution across CPU cores.
Common Lisp developers building concurrent, parallel, or distributed applications such as real-time data acquisition, audio analysis, GUI orchestration, or secure networked systems.
Developers choose Lisp-Actors for its simplicity in handling concurrency without manual thread management, its transactional safety, built-in secure distributed communication, and ability to scale to millions of concurrent tasks with functional purity.
Overview
Thread-agnostic Actors in Common Lisp
Use Cases
Best For
- Building real-time data acquisition and analysis systems with hard timing requirements
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