artalis-io/bitnet.c
Minimal, zero-dependency LLM inference in pure C11. CPU-first with NEON/AVX2 SIMD. Flash MoE (pread + LRU expert cache). TurboQuant 3-bit KV compression (8.9x less memory per session). 20+ GGUF quant formats. Compiles to WASM.
Health Breakdown
Should you contribute to artalis-io/bitnet.c?
artalis-io/bitnet.c has a FoundDev health score of 81/100, which puts it in the active-and-maintained tier. The maintainer team is shipping recently, issues are being closed, and a PR you open this week has a realistic chance of being reviewed.
Last push was 0 days ago — that signals an actively maintained project. New issues are likely to get a maintainer response within days. The project is written primarily in C, so prior C experience will shorten ramp-up.
Licensed under MIT, a standard OSI-approved license — safe to contribute to under normal employer IP policies.
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