6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Coq first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I found proving insertion sort to be correct in Coq to be fairly easy.”
endorse · personal · thethirdone · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main advantage of using Coq is that the tests can be made symbolic, thus covering a larger number of cases”
endorse · personal · clarus · 2015-06-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we use proof assistant languages (e.g., Rocq, Lean) to accomplish the verification”
neutral · production · DonaldPShimoda · 2026-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“What used to take me 6 months of work when I was doing my PhD in Coq (now Rocq), now takes from a few hours to a few days.”
neutral · personal · infruset · 2025-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm working on a undergraduate research project in Coq”
neutral · personal · BalinKing · 2020-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using insertion sort to benchmark the hypothetical language with, and I found proving insertion sort to be correct in Coq to be fairly easy.”
neutral · personal · seanwilson · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?