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maxwells-daemonyesterday at 1:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

We are! We very recently announced some results on formally proving the correctness of programs: https://harmonic.fun/news#blog-post-verina-bench-sota

Formal methods are cool because, by contrast to tools like the borrow checker, you can prove some very "nonlocal" properties: this system does not deadlock, or it makes progress at least every N steps, etc.


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vatsachakyesterday at 8:34 PM

Does Aristotle produce TLA+ output?

For example can it read rust async code and prove that there are no deadlocks in TLA+, or some equivalent in Lean?

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NetMageSCWyesterday at 8:56 PM

How is “this system doesn’t deadlock” not the same as the halting problem?

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