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id: overview
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title: Overview
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After going through the design principles and a few considerations linked to them, getting the Big Picture needs diving in technical matters.
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As shown in the Schema, LIGO’s compiler is separated in roughly 3 separate parts:
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- The Middle End. This is the core of LIGO. It defines its core data-structure (the Common AST), and its type-checking algorithm.
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- The Front End. This is the bridge between a given syntax and the Common AST.
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- The Back End. This is the bridge between the Common AST and a given compilation target. Currently, our only target is Michelson, but we’ll also target Marigold, and if Tezos moves to Web Assembly, Web Assembly.
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