verus-lang/verus
Verified Rust for low-level systems code
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 116 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 144% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Verifies Rust code correctness by statically checking that executable code meets user-defined specifications using formal verification techniques.
- Enables proving code correctness without runtime overhead by leveraging powerful solvers to ensure all executions satisfy specifications.
- Use for developing low-level Rust systems code that requires formal guarantees of safety and correctness beyond the standard Rust type system.
- Use for verifying concurrent Rust programs to ensure thread safety and correctness using state machine-based verification methods.
- Use for academic or research projects focused on formal methods and verified software development in Rust environments.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust. Developers write specifications of what their code should do, and Verus statically checks that the executable Rust code will always satisfy the specifications for all possible executions of the code. Rather than adding run-time checks, Verus instead relies on powerful solvers to prove the code is correct. Verus currently supports a subset of Rust (which we are working to expand), and in some cases, it allows developers to go beyond the standard Rust type system and statically check the correctness of code that, for example, manipulates raw pointers.
Verus is under active development. Features may be broken and/or missing, and the documentation is still incomplete. If you want to try Verus, please be prepared to ask for help in the 💬 Zulip.
The Verus community has published a number of research papers, and there are a variety of industry and academic projects using Verus. You can find a list on our publications and projects page. If you're using Verus please consider adding your project to that page (see the instructions there).
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+655 stars over 90 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +4 on Jul 29.
Forks
241+46
Open issues
388+126
Compared with peers in Backend
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/skills | 187.8K | +2.9K | 15 | — |
| DuarteSantos8/openGym | 19.7K | +2.4K | 60 | 2 days ago |
| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 47.0K | +2.3K | 16 | — |
| NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra | 98.2K | +2.3K | 64 | 14 days ago |
| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| verus-lang/verus | 3.4K | — | 40 | today |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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