I really think state machines are one of the major missing abstractions in the industry… So far every attempt I’ve seen to make them generic has a pretty thin and/or tortured encoding
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Tony O'Dell
05/18/2022, 9:11 PM
they'd certainly be easier to prove correct and it'd require a big shift in thinking for a business process to translate to state machines. docker solved half of the problem but it solved the wrong half
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Alex Cruise
05/18/2022, 9:12 PM
I wouldn’t call it “wrong”, just extremely Necessary But Not Sufficient. 😉
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Tony O'Dell
05/18/2022, 9:15 PM
haha, "wrong" in a sense that it doesn't solve a problem it wasn't designed to solve - it does certainly have its place