Zulip Chat Archive

Stream: new members

Topic: Writing an external type checker for lean


Leo Shine (Aug 31 2025 at 15:03):

Hello,

I was thinking of trying to do this, (I had a bit of a go at doing this with MetaMath once too) Do people know the best resources for this is it this https://ammkrn.github.io/type_checking_in_lean4/title_page.html type checking in lean book? Or are there others that might be better.

Kyle Miller (Aug 31 2025 at 17:31):

There's also Lean4Lean https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14064 by Mario Carneiro (mentioned in the Further reading)

I don't know any other specific resources, other than reading the Lean source code, or more general resources on type checking in general.


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