We Were Always Building State Machines — From .NET ViewBag to TypeScript Discriminated Unions

The Old Way: Dynamic Magic and Its Hidden Costs Years ago, in ASP.NET MVC and Razor, we had a seductively quick tool for passing state to the UI: ViewBag. // Controller ViewBag.Role = "Admin"; ViewBag.CanEdit = true; ViewBag.Theme = "Dark"; ViewBag.FeatureFlags = new[] { "beta_dashboard", "export_cs

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