Agda vs Rocq
Agda
wiki.portal.chalmers.se
Rocq
rocq-prover.orgSide by side
| Figure | Agda | Rocq |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Formal Verification Tools | 8.1 (#5) | 8.5 (#3) |
| Community support | Users can ask questions on the Agda mailing list or public Zulip server, and a separate developers mailing list is for implementation discussions. | Rocq provides Zulip chat, Discourse discussions and GitHub issue reporting for questions, announcements, bugs and feature requests. |
| Editor integrations | Interactive editor support is listed for Emacs, Visual Studio Code, Neovim, and Vim; Emacs is identified as the most tested. | The official VsRocq extension supports Visual Studio Code; the site also documents RocqIDE, Emacs Proof General, and Vim or Neovim Coqtail. |
| Support | The Agda wiki directs users to ask questions on the Agda mailing list or Agda Zulip server. | Users can report installation trouble or extension bugs in the dedicated Rocq Zulip stream. |
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In their own words
Rocq
Rocq is a free interactive theorem prover and proof assistant for building mathematical proofs, formal specifications and programs, including proofs that programs meet specifications. Its Gallina language supports specification and mathematical work and is based on the Polymorphic, Cumulative Calculus of Inductive Constructions. A relatively small certification kernel machine-checks proofs. Rocq also offers interactive proof methods, decision and semi-decision algorithms, and a tactic language for defining methods. Certified programs can be extracted to OCaml, Haskell or Scheme, and the system can connect with external computer algebra systems or theorem provers. The Rocq Platform bundles the core prover with libraries and plugins for development and teaching. Its scripts install Rocq and packages on macOS, Windows and many Linux distributions; precompiled installers are available for macOS and Windows, but not Linux. Editor options include the VsRocq Visual Studio Code extension, RocqIDE, Proof General and Coqtail. Rocq is written in OCaml and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence Version 2.1.