Machina is a simple Rx-based polymorphic state machine. It is said to be polymorphic in that it builds upon the general principle that a state machine should be in one and only one state at any given time, and extends it to allow some states to be polymorphically equivalent to others (in other words, inherit from others).
State polymorphism example
The addition of polymorphism greatly simplifies the modelling of states and the handling of changes between them. For example, here are a few states for objects in a game I am working on:
An object can either be Idle or Busy. But Moving and Falling are both considered equivalent to being Busy. There are also two ways of being considered Moving, by Pushing some other object or being Pushed by it.
It is then easy to handle whenever an object enters or leaves the Busy state, no matter the specific state that made it busy. The same applies to Moving, which can be handled generically, independently from the specific kind of movement.