MetaCoq 1.1 for Coq 8.14
We are happy to announce release 1.1 of the MetaCoq project for Coq 8.14, available both as source and through opam. See the website for a detailed overview of the project, introductory material and related articles and presentations.
This new version integrates:
- Support for primitive integers and floating point values, using the same typechecking mechanism as Coq's kernel, up to the erased lambda-box language.
- Better computational behavior of the safe checker.
- Support for nix and cachix (useful for CI, allows to reuse remotely compiled components)
- Registering of projections for inductive types defined as records
- More efficient eta-expansion transformation using environment maps instead of association lists.
MetaCoq integrates Template-Coq, a reification and denotation plugin for Coq terms and global declarations, a Template monad for metaprogramming (including the ability to extract these metaprograms to OCaml for efficiency), a formalisation of Coq's calculus PCUIC in Coq, a relatively efficient, correct and complete type checker for PCUIC, and a verified type and proof erasure procedure from PCUIC to untyped lambda calculus. MetaCoq provides a low-level interface to develop certified plugins like translations, compilers or tactics in Coq itself.
You can install MetaCoq directly from sources or by typing opam install coq-metacoq
.
This release will also be included in an upcoming Coq Platform.
The current release includes several subpackages, which can be compiled and installed separately if desired:
- the Template-Coq quoting library (in directory
template-coq
and ascoq-metacoq-template
) - a formalisation of meta-theoretical properties of PCUIC, the calculus underlying Coq (
pcuic
/coq-metacoq-pcuic
) - a total verified type-checker for Coq (
safechecker
/coq-metacoq-safechecker
), usable inside Coq or extracted to OCaml asMetaCoq SafeCheck <term>
- a verified type and proof erasure function for Coq (
erasure
/coq-metacoq-erasure
), usable inside Coq or extracted to OCaml asMetaCoq Erase <term>
- a set of example translations from Type Theory to Type Theory (
translation
/coq-metacoq-translations
).
A good place to start are the files demo.v
, safechecker_test.v
, erasure_test.v
in the test-suite
directory.
MetaCoq is developed by Abhishek Anand, Danil Annenkov, Jakob Botsch Nielsen, Simon Boulier, Cyril Cohen, Yannick Forster, Meven Lennon-Bertrand, Kenji Maillard, Gregory Malecha, Matthieu Sozeau, Nicolas Tabareau, and Théo Winterhalter. You are welcome to contribute by opening issues and PRs. A MetaCoq Zulip stream is also available.
The MetaCoq Team