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by staunton 1004 days ago
For example, making "exhaustive tests" (as if you're able to check every single possible user input), eliminating a lot of security vulnerabilities, provably correct implementations of cryptographic algorithms (DJB is playing with Lean a lot right now and wrote a paper on what it's like), being able to reason better about the program, composing different programs while maintaining these advantages.

The "reason" why people ask "what's the use of that" is that they just assume that writing bug-free and correct software is impossible and not worth trying.

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Oh cool