Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The Coq Community Survey 2022 was an online public survey of users of the Coq proof assistant conducted during February 2022. Broadly, the survey asked about use of Coq features, user interfaces, libraries, plugins, and tools, views on renaming Coq and Coq improvements, and also demographic data such as education and experience with Coq and other proof assistants and programming languages. The survey received 466 submitted responses, making it the largest survey of users of an interactive theorem prover (ITP) so far. We present the design of the survey, a summary of key results, and analysis of answers relevant to ITP technology development and usage. In particular, we analyze user characteristics associated with adoption of tools and libraries and make comparisons to adjacent software communities. Notably, we find that experience has significant impact on Coq user behavior, including on usage of tools, libraries, and integrated development environments (IDEs).
Source: Journal of Automated Reasoning
Institutions: Universitat de Barcelona, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bordeaux, Institut Universitaire de France, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Université Paris Cité, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale, PICUBE: Les assistants à la démonstration au cœur du raisonnement mathématique, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,190
OpenAlex ID: W4378449507