Meeting proposal: State of formal methods tools in Rust

[xldenis]

Meeting proposal info

• Title: The state of formal methods tools in Rust
• Type: technical

Summary

There is a nascent community of formal methods tool developers for Rust, who make atypical but heavy usage of the compiler apis and infrastructure. In this meeting I hope to share how FM tool developers use rustc, their needs, the difficulties they encounter and potential solutions and enhancements. I hope that by bringing these issues to the attention of t-compiler, we can help to make Rust the language with the best formal verification infrastructure and tooling!

Note: I am currently writing a long document to provide context to be provided before any actual meeting.

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[xldenis]

I've written a document here: https://hackmd.io/CuEgMe-oSau4oj2UwNSx4g .

[bjorn3]

Left a couple of inline comments.

[pnkfelix]

We met on 2022-03-25

We discussed this doc: https://hackmd.io/qLk-wnwtStOhCOBeF5YuOw?view

The public zulip archive will serve as the meeting record: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/238009-t-compiler.2Fmeetings/topic/.5Bsteering.20meeting.5D.202022-03-25.20compiler-team.23488.2C.20.23498/near/276622720