What problem does this solve?

[blocka]

As far as I can tell from the linked literature, the actor model is a pattern for scalability in backend systems. It doesn't seem like its an architectural pattern. Since JavaScript engines are single-threaded, what is the problem that this comes to solve?

[davidkpiano]

I'll write more on this later, but here's some insight: https://dev.to/davidkpiano/redux-is-half-of-a-pattern-2-2-4jo3

[isubasinghe]

@blocka It is still a nice pattern you can still use in frontend for dataflow in data processing heavy frontends