https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/finite-state-machine/ Recent content in Finite-State-Machine on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-state-machine-libraries-xstate-sml-transitions/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-state-machine-libraries-xstate-sml-transitions/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>State machines are one of the oldest and most reliable patterns in computer science — a system can be in exactly one state at a time, and explicit transitions define how it moves between states. This formalism prevents entire categories of bugs: impossible states become impossible to represent, race conditions between state transitions are eliminated by the single-state guarantee, and the system&rsquo;s behavior becomes auditable and testable.</p>