Who is writing state machines without the pattern of generators/coroutines these...

papaf · on Oct 3, 2020

Who is writing state machines without the pattern of generators/coroutines these days?

I prefer the discipline and diagrams of regular state machines. Personally, I don't like the coroutine alternative because it takes away what is good and adds complexity.

Also as @R0b0t1 says, regular state machines are used in embedded:

- Draw a diagram

- Implement a state machine

These feels much more like engineering that messing with coroutines.

R0b0t1 · on Oct 2, 2020

Embedded.

steveklabnik · on Oct 2, 2020

You can use async/await (and therefore generators) in Rust on embedded just fine.

R0b0t1 · on Oct 3, 2020

Most people are not doing embedded with Rust.

masklinn · on Oct 3, 2020

So why did you bring it up?

R0b0t1 · on Oct 4, 2020

GP wasn't about Rust, it's about people using state machines without coroutines.

masklinn · on Oct 4, 2020

Ah i see I had misread your comment as “most people aren’t using rust for embedded” rather than “most people doing embedded aren’t using rust”, sorry about that.