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1. **The Frontend** (written in Rust)
2. **The Engine** (written in OCaml)

The frontend hooks into the Rust compiler, producing a abstract syntax tree for a given crate. The engine then takes this AST in input, applies various transformation, to reach in the end the language of the backend: F*, Coq...

## The Frontend (Rust)

The frontend is responsible for extracting and exporting Rust code's abstract syntax trees (ASTs) in a format suitable for processing by the engine (or by other tools).
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