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by dddbbb 2052 days ago
It seems to me like Lean has a lot of the momentum at the moment. It's clear that other projects like Coq suffer from a lack of traditional mathematicians formalising modern, fashionable topics. Kevin Buzzard's implementation in Lean of perfectoid spaces is a great example of that boundary being broken, as far as I can tell the most advanced Coq proofs are the four colour theorem and Feit-Thompson theorem, which have analogue proofs from the 60s and 70s.
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But you have to take into account that the Coq proofs are actual proofs of big THEOREMS. What Buzzard has done is implementing a big DEFINITION :-)

Also, the Flyspeck project has formalised the proof of a pretty recent theorem as well, mostly in HOL-Light and Isabelle.