[OtherShrezzing]

While that might be true, for as long as its name is “.cpp”, people are going to think it’s a C++ library and avoid it.

[eterm]

This is the first I'm learning that it isn't just a C++ library.

In fact the first line of the wikipedia article is:

> llama.cpp is an open source software library

[RobotToaster]

It would make sense to just make the GUI a separate project, they could call it llama.gui.

[gettingoverit]

It would make even more sense to rename it to ollama, get a copyright for the name, and see how thieves complain they've been robbed :>

[homarp]

it is called llama-barn https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn

[adrian_b]

LlamaBarn is the MacOS app, not the HTTP API server, which is "llama-server".

On non-Apple PCs, "llama-server" is what you use, and you can connect to it either with a browser or with an application compatible with the OpenAI API.

Perhaps using "llama-server" as the name of the project would have been less confusing for newbies than "llama.cpp".

I confess that when I first heard about "llama.cpp" I also thought that it is just a library and that I have to write my own program in order to implement a complete LLM inference backend.

[mastermage]

this looks nice but is macos only.

[figassis]

This is correct, and I avoided it for this reason, did not have the bandwidth to get into any cpp rabbit hole so just used whatever seemed to abstract it away.

[marssaxman]

Wait, it isn't? The name very strongly suggests that it is a text file containing C++ source code; is that not the case?