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Grantee Exposé Lightning Talk 1 - Formality: An efficient proof language

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Grantee Exposé Lightning Talk 1 - Formality: An efficient proof language

Duration: 00:10:20

Speaker: John Burnham

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon 5

Date: Oct 2019

Formality is a dependently-typed functional programming language similar to Agda that compiles to a non-garbage-collected, parallel runtime based on interaction combinators and Lamping's optimal reduction algorithm. The language is suitable both as a formal proof language as well as a fast low-level systems language, which allows it to be used to write verifiably secure software at every level of the stack, from hardware drivers to smart contracts and everything in between. Formal proofs are of particular interest for smart contracts applications, given that they often have large amounts of capital depending on the safety of relatively small code bases.

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