How to run Athena | Coq | Isabelle codes remotely?

Question

I\' ve been creating a Web IDE (WIDE) for theorem proving in Computer Science. You may know, there are 3 most common proof assitants which names Athena, Isabelle and Coq. Most o

Answer 1

I can only give an partial answer for Isabelle:

Isabelle itself is implemented in Standard ML, but for communicating with the external world, it uses a protocol called PIDE (= Prover IDE). The reference implementation of PIDE is bundled with Isabelle and written in Scala, so it can be used with any JVM language. The primary application of PIDE is Isabelle/jEdit, which uses the jEdit editor to build an IDE for Isabelle, including markup, continuous checking, ...

There are also other IDEs like Isabelle/Eclipse and Clide (web-based). For your use case, Clide appears to be highly relevant.

If you want to know more about the inner workings of PIDE, you can consult the relevant papers by Wenzel, for example Asynchronous User Interaction and Tool Integration in Isabelle/PIDE and Isabelle as Document-oriented Proof Assistant.

Now, finally, shameless plug: Since the question of how to interact with Isabelle as an external program comes up every now and then, I've packaged PIDE with some additional utilities as libisabelle. It includes an example of a very simple ping/pong interaction with the prover.