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C

The bedrock. When a project picks C in 2026, it's making a deliberate statement about control and longevity.

Projects built with C

AI Engineering

llama.cpp

LLM inference in plain C/C++ — run capable models on everyday hardware.

llama.cpp made large language models runnable on a laptop CPU with no GPU, no framework, no cluster. The quantization formats it pioneered (GGUF) became the de facto standard for local inference.

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SQLite

A C library that implements a small, fast, self-contained SQL database engine.

The most widely deployed database engine in the world — in every phone, browser, and airplane — maintained by a tiny team with arguably the most rigorous testing culture in software.

C