Daikon VS cakeml

Compare Daikon vs cakeml and see what are their differences.

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Daikon cakeml
1 14
199 904
4.0% 2.8%
8.1 9.8
1 day ago 4 days ago
C Standard ML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Daikon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Daikon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.

cakeml

Posts with mentions or reviews of cakeml. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • The Deep Link Equating Math Proofs and Computer Programs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    If I understand what you are asking about correctly, then I do think you are mistaken.

    As a sibling comment observed, you would be proving something about a program, but proving things about programs is both possible and done.

    This ranges from things like CakeML (https://cakeml.org/) and CompCert (compilers with verified correctness proofs of their optimizations) to something simple like absence of runtime type errors in statically strongly soundly-typed languages.

    Of note is that you are proving properties of your program, not proving them perfect in every way. The properties of your program that you prove can vary wildly in both difficulty and usefulness. A sufficiently advanced formally verified compiler like CakeML can transfer a high-level proof about your source code to a corresponding proof about the behavior of the generated machine-executable code.

  • The future of Clang-based tooling
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023
    > A single IR with multiple passes is a good way to build a compiler

    https://mlir.llvm.org/, which is using, is largely claiming the opposite. Most passes more naturally are not "a -> a", but "a -> b". data structures and data structures work hand in hand, it is very nice to produce "evidence" for what is done in the output data structure.

    This is why https://cakeml.org/, which "can't cheat" with partial functions, has so many IRs!

    Using just a single IR was historically done for cost-control, the idea being that having many IRs was a disaster in repetitive boilerplate. MLIR seeks to solve that exact problem!

  • old languages compilers
    12 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 26 Dec 2022
    CakeML
  • Is there a formally-proven real-time language/computing env. or operating system?
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 7 Sep 2022
    There is also Cake ML which is a formally verified functional programming language compiler and runtime.
  • CakeML: A Verified Implementation of ML
    2 projects | /r/sml | 7 Mar 2022
    There is also a CakeML -> Standard ML compiler though it seems to have been built to translate benchmarks and sort of old so I'm not sure how comprehensive it is: https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml/tree/master/unverified/front-end
    2 projects | /r/sml | 7 Mar 2022
  • The λ-Cube
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2022
    > One guess is that lisps cope with being minimal through use of macros and metaprogramming, it's difficult for a typed language to support that level of metaprogramming while maintaining the various guarantees that one wants from such a system.

    Difficult, but certainly not impossible [0].

    [0] https://cakeml.org/

  • Two Mechanisations of WebAssembly 1.0
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 3 Jan 2022
    If this interests you, I'd highly recommend checking out CompCert (docs here) and CakeML.
  • Please critique Pancake, my first ever langdev project!
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 11 Oct 2021
  • A Proven Correct C Compiler (Used by Airbus)
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2021
    CakeML[0] is another formally verified compiler. Notably, unlike compcert, it is open source.

    The language it implements (an sml dialect) is high-level and garbage collected, meaning that it is not usable in all of the same domains, but work is ongoing to reuse much of the compiler infrastructure for 'pancake', a low-level language.

    0. https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Daikon and cakeml you can also consider the following projects:

Checker Framework - Pluggable type-checking for Java

OpenJML - This is the primary repository for the source code of the OpenJML project. The source code is licensed under GPLv2 because it derives from OpenJDK which is so licensed. The active issues list for OpenJML development is here and the wiki contains information relevant to development. Public documentation for users is at the project website:

CATG - a concolic testing engine for Java

JMLOK 2.0 - Tool for detecting and classifying nonconformances in Java/JML projects.

jCUTE - Java Concolic Unit Testing Engine

creusot - Creusot helps you prove your code is correct in an automated fashion. [Moved to: https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot]

hardware - Verilog development and verification project for HOL4

CompCert - The CompCert formally-verified C compiler

mpl - The MaPLe compiler for Parallel ML

smlpkg - Generic package manager for Standard ML libraries and programs

checkedc - Checked C is an extension to C that lets programmers write C code that is guaranteed by the compiler to be type-safe. The goal is to let people easily make their existing C code type-safe and eliminate entire classes of errors. Checked C does not address use-after-free errors. This repo has a wiki for Checked C, sample code, the specification, and test code.