Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the patterns and structures which we program with. It's really wonderful to start exploring a project and see familiar patterns and styles which you've already used before. It makes it easier to understand the project, and empowers you to start working on the project faster. Sometimes you're working on a new project and realize that you need to do something in the same way as you did in another project. This thing might not be a functionality or a library, it might not be something which you can encode into some clever macro or small crate. Instead, it may be simply a pattern, or a structural concept which addresses a problem nicely. One interesting pattern that is commonly applied to problems is that of the 'State Machine'. Let's take some time to consider what exactly we mean when we say that, and why they're interesting. Throughout this post you can run all examples in the playground, I typically use 'Nightly' out of habit. There are a lot o ... Read full article.