What are some good resources to learn to write very reliable/formally verifiable software?

a year ago by flavonol to c/programming

The University of Pennsylvania offers a free series of books called Software Foundations with the following description:

The Software Foundations series is a broad introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of reliable software.

The principal novelty of the series is that every detail is one hundred percent formalized and machine-checked: the entire text of each volume, including the exercises, is literally a "proof script" for the Coq proof assistant.

The series includes Verifiable C, which seems very appealing as a way to avoid some of C's infamous "footguns." I haven't read the series myself, but I might in the future because I like math, logic & programs that do what they're supposed to do.

Are there any materials that would be good as alternatives or complements to this series?

Edit: Adding the Vercors Wiki to the resources in this thread

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kata1yst 23 points a year ago path: 0 15130453, hotness: undefined, score: 23, children: 7
flavonol 5 points a year ago

The Software Engineering Handbook PDF appears to just be a single page with a broken link on it; is there an archive for the document that's supposed to be there?

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Hammerheart 9 points a year ago

That's kindeof poetic tbh

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kata1yst 3 points a year ago path: 0 15130453 15130544 15133007, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
Comment105 6 points a year ago

Would this be a consequence of the Project 2025 federal purge?

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