I'll add a link to the (to my mind) canonical articulation of why coroutines are superior to state machines: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/corout

I'll add a link to the (to my mind) canonical articulation of why coroutines are superior to state machines: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html I'll also add a shameless plug to my recent 'port' of this essay for a VM with first-class continuation support: http://akkartik.name/coroutines-in-mu http://akkartik.name/coroutines-in-mu