Comment by trenchgun
4 hours ago
>Such is very difficult at the moment
What do you mean? It's a nice and simple language. Way easier to get started than OCaml or Haskell for example. And LLMs write programs in Lean4 with ease as well. Only issue is that there are not as many libraries (for software, for math proofs there is plenty).
But for example I worked with Claude Code and implemented a shell + most of unix coreutils in like a couple of hours. Claude did some simple proofs as well, but that part is obvs harder. But when the program is already in Lean4, you can start moving up the verification ladder up piece by piece.
Well, if you do not need to care about performance everything can be extremely simple indeed. Let me show you some data structure in coq/rocq while switching off notations and diplaying low level content.
Require Import String.
Definition hello: string := "Hello world!".
Print hello.
hello = String (Ascii.Ascii false false false true false false true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii true false true false false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false false true true false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false false true true false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii true true true true false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false false false false false true false false) (String (Ascii.Ascii true true true false true true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii true true true true false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false true false false true true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false false true true false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii false false true false false true true false) (String (Ascii.Ascii true false false false false true false false) EmptyString))))))))))) : string