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by deterministic 975 days ago
It doesn’t matter. What matters is if you can prove things you care about true for code you care about.

And yes we can prove termination and zero bugs for a lot of practical useful code. Examples: seL4 is a proven correct micro kernel and CompCert is a proven correct C compiler.

The trick is to use programming languages that are total i.e. not general infinite tape turing machines.