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by elcritch 2936 days ago
True! Statecharts are handy in lots of domains. Embedded happens to be a prime target due to the memory constraints combined with often limited behavioral requirements.

IMHO, most websites / UI's implement half of a poorly understood state machine (to roughly paraphrase the Common Lisp quip). Qt apparently also has an interesting statechart engine as well: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/01/23/qt-scxml-state-chart-suppo...