Alan Skorkin personal blog
Why Developers Never Use State Machines
Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
- Points
- 237
- HN comments
- 370
- Submissions
- 3
- Cited by
- 3 commenters
Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2011
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2011 | Why Developers Never Use State Machines by fogus | 237 | 92 |
| Feb 27, 2018 | Why Developers Never Use State Machines (2011) by severine | 183 | 161 |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Why developers never use state machines (2011) by greenie_beans | 93 | 117 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Sep 2011 to Feb 2018.
Most recent:
- braythwayt · Feb 26, 2018
- punnerud · May 16, 2016
- cassiozen · Sep 12, 2011
