coq-serapi VS Coqtail

It's a question I hadn't really considered before. On first pass, as far as I know, I'd say the answer is no. It isn't clear to me what the objective of embedding Coq with a C api for example would be. The very core of Coq is about verifying proofs and not producing them and I'm not sure what the benefit of embedding it is.

Having said that there are a few projects that may be something like what you're asking. First off, Coq has the SerAPI project https://github.com/ejgallego/coq-serapi through which external programs can talk to coq. This has been used for example to make a python OpenAi gym like interface https://github.com/princeton-vl/CoqGym.

A different direction might be something like MetaMath Zero https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10703 which is intended to be a small and fast verifier for it's language, perhaps maybe someday for embedding in applications. There is this notion of "Proof Carrying Code" which I don't really know what the current state of the art is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-carrying_code One might want an easily embeddable trusted verifier for that purpose. I don't know.

I've looked at both of these before, but neither of them fit the bill. Both are used for interactive execution of Coq programs from inside Neovim (I already use https://github.com/whonore/Coqtail for that purpose), but neither provides code completion. Nonetheless, thank you so much for your help. Much appreciated.

If you're finding coqide hard to use, I used to use coquille back in the day so that I didn't have to lose my neovim workflow (though it seems like coqtail is the currently maintained fork). I remember djao himself used to use proof general with emacs, which looks like another nice option if you're an emacs user.