FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by nlte » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 10:44 AM UTC

FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create
fsl.tools

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by zokier » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:23 PM UTC

How does this compare to Ragel?

http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by Cloudef » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:44 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #2

How does this compare to Ragel? http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

I was about to ask the same question

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by argvargc » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:47 PM UTC

Why are the examples and learning resources crossed-out?

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by tenderfault » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:49 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #2

How does this compare to Ragel? http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

I too was about to ask the same question

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by phaer » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 12:56 PM UTC

argvargc wrote: post #4

Why are the examples and learning resources crossed-out?

A link target of "#todo" suggests, that they are not finished yet.

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by jhvkjhk » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 1:00 PM UTC

Is my ad provider broken, or there’s something wrong about the video link?

“Using the live editor” is a Chicken fighting ninja, “What are state machines?” is a black woman singing(the cover is a laughing Jesus, why?), “Why FSL?” is Video unavailable, “Publishing a machine” is The history of Japan.

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by luguenth » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

jhvkjhk wrote: post #7

Is my ad provider broken, or there’s something wrong about the video link? “Using the live editor” is a Chicken fighting ninja, “What are state machines?” is a black woman singing(the cover is a laughing Jesus, why?), “Why FSL?” is Video unavailable, “Publishing a machine” is The history of Japan.

no, same for me

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by x86ARMsRace » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 1:07 PM UTC

jhvkjhk wrote: post #7

Is my ad provider broken, or there’s something wrong about the video link? “Using the live editor” is a Chicken fighting ninja, “What are state machines?” is a black woman singing(the cover is a laughing Jesus, why?), “Why FSL?” is Video unavailable, “Publishing a machine” is The history of Japan.

This is an, albeit somewhat comical, bug. I've got the same thing. A lot of other things in the site are broken too, most of the links at the top default to the /# link.

My guess is something is broken in their back-end, or this got found and posted before the creators were ready for it to get publicity. The sample code also links out to /#todo, so I think my "not quite ready" idea may be what's up.

Shame, this looks like it'd be a cool project.

Re: FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 1:08 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #2

How does this compare to Ragel? http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

From playing with it a bit, the differences I see...

Ragel compiles its source into a separate file in the target language (C, Ruby, ASM, etc). FSL instead has a library that parses and runs the FSL source at run time.

Ragel supports (or plans to support) C, C++, ASM, Objective C, D, Go, Ruby, and Java. FSL supports (or plans to support) Javascript, C and Erlang.

The live editor does seem to be somewhat unique to FSL. It's at https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-demo/graph_explorer.h... Try, for example, changing "flow: down" to "flow: right".