Ask HN: Is formal verification of practical use in real world projects?5 points·by akkad33·7 mesi fa·4 comments4 commentsPost comment[–]wmf·7 mesi fareplyFormal verification is useful for security-critical software (e.g. the new AWS hypervisor) or low-level distributed systems components (e.g. Paxos/Raft implementations).[–]akkad33·7 mesi fareplyDo you know what tools they use?[–]wmf·7 mesi fareplyTLA+ is a big one.[–]IntelliAvatar·7 mesi fareplyFull formal verification is rare, but partial guarantees at execution boundaries are very practical — especially for systems that act autonomously.