Hey, I can't say I have ever worked on such a project, it sounds like an interesting problem space.
I am assuming when a user interacts with one control button / dial / interaction it has a cascade effect on other controls / displays etc?
I am also assuming you already need to have a data structure representing the complete state of the system no?
There are multiple interesting aspects here, like are you / do you need to utilise complex state machines here? Just the subject of imperative vs functional state-machines is interesting and a small part of the wider approach.
Another interesting area is it depends on the language and execution environment you are operating in and how expensive operations over immutable data structures are.
I am assuming when a user interacts with one control button / dial / interaction it has a cascade effect on other controls / displays etc?
I am also assuming you already need to have a data structure representing the complete state of the system no?
There are multiple interesting aspects here, like are you / do you need to utilise complex state machines here? Just the subject of imperative vs functional state-machines is interesting and a small part of the wider approach.
Another interesting area is it depends on the language and execution environment you are operating in and how expensive operations over immutable data structures are.
Lots of questions!