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AbsInt / CompCert

CompCert

The CompCert formally-verified C compiler

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What it is

The CompCert formally-verified C compiler

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:27:21 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-04-05 00:38:10 UTC to 2026-07-05 18:33:23 UTC.

0123452015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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ojnabieoot·Oct 27, 2020
Disclaimer: I am not a domain expert in type theory and my background is algebraic combinatorics, not computer science. I also hate online courses, don’t like collaborative learning, and tend to read books and papers by myself. So I’m not a great source of advice for most people. Unfortunately I don’t have many more suggestions that would be good pedagogically. Benjamin Pierce (who wrote Software Foundations) has another very famous intro book, Types and Programming Languages: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/ which is regarded as a “Bible” of type theory for computer scientists. Note: I haven’t personally read this, but I have read the sequel, Advanced Types and Programming Languages. Both books have exercises and most exercises have solutions. Simon Peyton-Jones wrote a very good book, the Implementation of Functional Programmin
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g Languages. It is old (1987), but free, a good read, and covers most of the “important” topics without assuming too much background: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp... For formal verification - there are definitely better-qualified people than me. I found a lot of the source code to CompCert C (a verified C compiler) illuminating: https://github.com/AbsInt/CompCert However, it will be difficult to understand without doing Software Foundations first (I still find personally tactics-style proofs in Coq confusing and don’t like Coq as much as Idris or Agda). I am very shy and can’t help you with the online communities :) The type theory subreddit is pretty active and they seem nice.
In Homotopy Type Theory (2012) [pdf]

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