Thanks Morpheus_Matrix. I'll take a look at Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B for offline C. I appreciate your guidance.

By extraordinary coincidence, I was just a moment ago part-of-the-way through re-watching The Matrix (1999) and paused it to check Hacker News. There your reply greeted me.

Wild glitch!

There is also a successor to that: Qwen3-Coder-Next, which is a newer and bigger model, but it obviously requires more hardware resources, being an 80B model.

However it is likely to be the most powerful open weights coding assistant that you can run locally, without having to worry about token price or reaching the subscription limits in the most inconvenient moment.