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danparsonson 6 hours ago

Yes but, without wishing to be snarky, did you read the article? There is no program as such, in either sense - the announcement from Lean only mentions "a C compression library" (zlib). Not only that, but since we're talking about formal verification, a programmer would likely understand that that is about proving a bounded, specific codebase at source code level, and not operating on a binary along with its associated dependencies (again caveat my limited understanding of these things).

My feeling is that if you told the average non-technical user that some person/organisation had produced a formally verified version of a C compression library, you would likely get a blank look, so I think it's reasonable to assume that both Lean's intended audience, and the audience of the blog post linked here, correspond with number 1. in your list.

nathell 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Gentle reminder about this excerpt from HN Guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

danparsonson 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Noted, thank you