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by lenkite 1092 days ago
I wish something like Lamport's TLA+ (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html) was supported in modern language compilers - perhaps with annotations/macros and a mini formal DSL.
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And types too :)

I know many words have been spilled over why it shouldn't have them, but I remain unconvinced.

I modelled a trivial traffic light system to make sure the cars and pedestrians didn't have "green" at the same time. And they didn't, because they had "green_light" at the same time. Oops!

It's still in pretty early development, but you may be interested in https://github.com/informalsystems/quint

> It combines the robust theoretical basis of the Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA) with state-of-the-art static analysis and development tooling.

And it is typed ;)