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Re:Advent of Code 2018, in Coq by archi42 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:28AM (#19198447)
This really depends on what you're doing. I suppose most of the code I've written in the last two decades wouldn't have profited from using coq. BUT then there's CompCert, an optimizing compiler written in coq [I'm affiliated, but not working on it directly]. If you're building safety critical stuff (like in failure == people die) something like this might be interesting.

Of course, for a C compiler the requirements are less prone to change than e.g. some SAP-style business application. As a dev, coq is just another tool in your belt and being a good dev means knowing when to use what tool.

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