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by octachron 766 days ago
F* has an extraction backend which targets "human-readable C" code, contrarily to Coq which extracts proof to "machine-written OCaml" (typically the extracted code use a type-system-escape-hatch left in OCaml for the sake of Coq extraction). Consequently, part of the Everest project (the proven cryptographic primitives in particular) has been integrated into C code base like the linux kernel, firefox .