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Re:Ask HN: Is the formal methods winter about to end? by yarnton99 on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:28PM (#28580285)
Some things like abstract interpretation scale quite well.

The Airbus fly-by-wire code (~100 KLOC) can be statically verified in about an hour with a modern PC.

This is not a formal proof, but it excludes entire classes of runtime errors such as de-referencing a null pointer.

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