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Charon exposes Rust compiler information through a stable API

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Charon aims to make Rust crate internals easier for tools to consume by providing a stable API to compiler information. That could simplify tooling built around Rust, where direct extraction from compiler internals is difficult.

What

- Charon provides a stable API for accessing internal Rust compiler information from a crate.

How

- The project addresses the difficulty of automatically extracting crate information for use with other tooling.

Why it matters

- The API gives engineers building Rust analysis tools a stable interface to compiler information.

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