Introducing Theta, an async actor framework for Rust

Hey r/rust! 👋

I'm excited to share **Theta** - a new async actor framework I've been working on that aims to be ergonomic, minimal, and performant.

There are great actor frameworks out there, but I find some points to make them better especially regarding simplicity and remote support. Here are some of the key features.

Async
- An actor instance is a very thin wrapper around a tokio::task and two MPSC channels.
- ActorRef is just a MPSC sender.
Built-in remote
- Distributed actor system powered by P2P protocol, iroh.
- Even ActorRef could be passed around network boundary as regular data in message.
- Available with feature remote.
Built-in monitoring
- "Monitor" suggested by Carl Hewitt's Actor Model is implemented as (possibly remote) monitoring feature.
- Available with feature monitor.
Built-in persistence
- Seamless respawn of actor from snapshot on file system, AWS S3 etc.
- Available with feature persistence.
WASM support (WIP)
- Compile to WebAssembly for running in browser or other WASM environments

Just published v0.1.0-alpha.1 on crates.io!
Would love to hear your thoughts! What features would you want to see in an actor framework?

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