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![Scala News](ZIO.png)

# Overview

ZIO Actors is a high-performance, purely functional library for building, composing, and supervising typed actors based on ZIO using Scala.

Original creator of this project, though I do not maintain it anymore.

## My blog post and Talk about ZIO Actors

[see here](/talks/acting-lessons-for-scala-engineers-with-akka-and-zio/)

## Links

- Repository: <https://github.com/zio/zio-actors>
  - README: <https://github.com/zio/zio-actors/blob/master/README.md>
- Documentation: <https://zio.dev/zio-actors/>
