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Welcome to the Pronghorn documentation page! This GitBook contains everything needed to get started with Pronghorn.

- Learn how to create a simple Pronghorn app by following the Hello World Example. You can also use the chapters on the left as a reference for building better Pronghorn applications.
The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats "actors" as the universal primitives of concurrent computation. In response to a message that it receives, an actor can: make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received.
Pronghorn is a pragmatic approach to an actor based framework. It is a staged event driven single machine embedded micro-framework written in Java, designed to be garbage-free with a small memory footprint.
The JavaDoc for every major Pronghorn-related project is listed below:
For a project built completely with Pronghorn, there is GreenLighting, an incredibly fast & lightweight microservices framework.

A live telemetry demo of encoding a JPG using Pronghorn.

Telemetry demonstration of the Web Cookbook.
| Pronghorn | Akka |
Actor framework | Yes | Yes |
Garbage-free | Yes | No |
Statically typed | Yes | Yes |
Language | Java | Scala |
Blocking/locking free | Yes | No |
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