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Actor-model projects on GitHub

Frameworks implementing the actor model for concurrent and distributed systems.

As of , the most-starred Actor-model projects on GitHub are xstate (30.3K stars), akka-core (13.3K stars) and orleans (10.9K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Actor-model repositories with 56.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was xstate, with +9 stars in a day.

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56.9KStars in total
+17Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+9

xstate

statelyai/xstate · ★ 30.3K

XState is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It models complex application logic as state machines, statecharts, and actors, so behavior stays predictable, robust, and visual.

+4

durable-actors

TerseAI/durable-actors · ★ 225

Durable Actors is an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects for building real-time, multi-agent coordinated systems like chat apps, collaboration tools, and agent swarms, with durable state and WebSocket support.

+2

unreal-agent

unreallabsai/unreal-agent · ★ 2.2K

Unreal Agent is an async-first agent harness written in Go — a toolkit for running LLM agents with persistent, forkable sessions, tool calling, and durable background work.

+1

akka-core

akka/akka-core · ★ 13.3K

Akka is a platform for building highly responsive, resilient and scalable distributed services; this repo holds its core libraries. It is used for transactional, analytical, agentic-AI, digital-twin, IoT and edge-to-cloud systems.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · statelyai/xstate

    xstate

    XState is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It models complex application logic as state machines, statecharts, and actors, so behavior stays predictable, robust, and visual.

    30.3K
  2. #2 · akka/akka-core

    akka-core

    Akka is a platform for building highly responsive, resilient and scalable distributed services; this repo holds its core libraries. It is used for transactional, analytical, agentic-AI, digital-twin, IoT and edge-to-cloud systems.

    13.3K
  3. #3 · dotnet/orleans

    orleans

    Orleans is a cross-platform .NET framework for building robust, scalable distributed applications — from a single on-premises server up to globally distributed, highly available cloud services. It's often referred to as 'Distributed .NET'.

    10.9K
  1. 4

    unreal-agent

    2.2Kunreallabsai/unreal-agent · Go

    Unreal Agent is an async-first agent harness written in Go — a toolkit for running LLM agents with persistent, forkable sessions, tool calling, and durable background work.

  2. 5

    durable-actors

    225TerseAI/durable-actors · Rust

    Durable Actors is an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects for building real-time, multi-agent coordinated systems like chat apps, collaboration tools, and agent swarms, with durable state and WebSocket support.

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