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``tractor`` is a `structured concurrent`_, multi-processing_ runtime built on trio_.
``tractor`` is a `structured concurrent`_, multi-processing_ runtime
built on trio_.

Fundamentally ``tractor`` gives you parallelism via ``trio``-"*actors*":
our nurseries_ let you spawn new Python processes which each run a ``trio``
scheduled runtime - a call to ``trio.run()``.

We believe the system adhere's to the `3 axioms`_ of an "`actor model`_"
We believe the system adheres to the `3 axioms`_ of an "`actor model`_"
but likely *does not* look like what *you* probably think an "actor
model" looks like, and that's *intentional*.

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matrix seems too hip, we're also mostly all in the the `trio gitter
channel`_!

.. _structured concurrent: https://trio.discourse.group/t/concise-definition-of-structured-concurrency/228
.. _multi-processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing
.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
.. _nurseries: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/#nurseries-a-structured-replacement-for-go-statements
.. _actor model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
.. _trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio
.. _multi-processing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprocessing
.. _trionic: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/design.html#high-level-design-principles
.. _async sandwich: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#async-sandwich
.. _structured concurrent: https://trio.discourse.group/t/concise-definition-of-structured-concurrency/228
.. _3 axioms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo&t=162s
.. .. _3 axioms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model#Fundamental_concepts
.. _adherance to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7erJ1DV_Tlo&t=1821s
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