Concurrency
Scala has in its standard library support for the actor model, in addition to the standard Java concurrency APIs. Typesafe have included Akka in their stack, a separate open source framework providing actor based concurrency, where actors may also be distributed or combined with software transactional memory ("transactors"). Alternative CSP implementations for channel-based message passing are Communicating Scala Objects, or simply via JCSP.
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