Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011)

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  • xstate

    Actor-based state management & orchestration for complex app logic.

    • > But I rarely see mention of messier problems which consist of overlapping and perhaps hierarchical states.

    That's what State Charts were designed for: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/res...

    It's used as the basis for a number of state machine / state chart libraries, for instance XState: https://xstate.js.org/docs/

  • robot3-viz

    Visualisation library for Robot3 (robot) finite state machines.

    • You can visualise many FSMs automatically - see this project of mine for an example: https://github.com/jbreckmckye/robot3-viz

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