Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011)

Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by oblio on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:08AM (#16472493)

> It's less about a language per se but rather about availability of libraries and how mature / well-built their API is.

In the real world, those matter just as much as the language. They usually matter even more :)

Look at what Rust is doing - I think at least half of their effort is spent towards building up a large collection of high quality, well maintained (i.e. feature requests implemented, bugs fixed quickly) and well documented libraries.

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Re:Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by vbezhenar on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:46AM (#16472900)

I agree. For me what matters most is language implementation (compiler/VM quality, GC quality, etc) and important libraries (and whether they are good). Language itself is not very important. I can write boilerplate, but I can't write GC implementation. So while I don't like Go language, for example, its implementation is very good and I can live with it.

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