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Re:Ask HN: What are you creating now? by airbreather on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:14AM (#20896366)
A simulator for hierarchical state machines that lets you empirically test your system behaviour and then take the model and use it to generate the end use code.

I built it specifically for use in designing complex burner management systems sequencing for the LiOH plant we design, but I made it general enough you can use it for any sequenced system, or even business process.

Bonus, built in OPC server so it can bolt on to a HMI for testing/training, or bolt it onto an existing running system inputs in parallel to shadow an existing system with your proposed cut-over system.

For the v-model, when implementing IEC61508 or 61511, it means that now effectively the specification is the product and the v is very shallow.

Re:Ask HN: What are you creating now? by krapp on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:13AM (#20895788)
Apparently I'm writing an interface for Racket's DB functions in Arc because I'm procrastinating on actual productive things like learning Unity and Godot.
Re:Ask HN: What are you creating now? by VeryHacker on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:31AM (#20895029)
Docker images to be used in Jenkins for projects with mixed languages (C++17, PHP7, JDK12) and platforms.

Using wine for running MSVC and jpackage ain't more fun