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Comment on: Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler

by luckystarr
Posted: Jul 1, 2026
> [int overflows, etc.] No runtime cost when Z3 can prove it. Otherwise, the compiler emits a safe runtime check as fallback.Super interesting approach. I see this eventually be integrated into future mainstream languages, though that may take a while. I suspect that the game programming crowd will try to use it first, due to the possibility to prove certain edge cases at compile time and skip the runtime cost. But perhaps this optimization drive is no longer the case because we've got bazillions of cores nowadays. I may be too old for these predictions. Cool nonetheless.
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