How is this different from the Durable Promises idea by ResonateHQ?
It seams to me a bitter easer to get started with as a small standalone project.
Would you mind comparing this solutions to that?
I skimmed a bit about Durable Promises, and if I understand correctly, they’re similar to workflow tools like Temporal but come with high-quality language bindings that let you write workflow steps using async/await.
We built something almost identical in Rust to let us use async/await for long-running & failure-prone workflows. This powers almost everything we do at Rivet. We have a technical writeup coming later, but here's a couple links of interest:
Rivet Actors can start, stop, or crash at any time and still continue functioning, much like Durable Promises.
However, their scope differs: Rivet Actors are broader and designed for anything stateful & realtime, while Durable Promises seem focused on workflows with complex control flow.
Rivet Actors can (and likely will) support workflow-like applications in the future, since state management and rescheduling are already built-in.
