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dbdrtoday at 4:41 AM1 replyview on HN

> obviously no one’s running any compiled Lean code in any kind of production hot path

Ignorant question: why not? Is there an unacceptable performance penalty? And what's the recommended way in that case to make use of proven Lean code in production that keeps the same guarantees?


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ctmnttoday at 9:51 AM

Yes, it isn’t performant. Lean isn’t a language for writing software, though you technically can; it’s a language for proving math.

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