[majormjr]

The first 2 points do point to Ollama neglecting the community and not contributing to upstream. For the lack of Jinja templates I would have thought that's just from it being written in Go and using the Go templating engine instead.

[ochafik]

When there's a will, there's a way.

It's a bit silly but I rolled out my own(*) "no-deps" C++ Jinja template library (https://github.com/google/minja) just to add tool call support to llama.cpp (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/9639).

(*): I mean, technically my employer's :-D*