# tombkeeper/BitKindle

> A Windows x64 C compiler bootstrapped from a 3,584-byte machine-code seed without MSVC, GCC, Clang, or the Windows SDK. Includes assemblers, C0/C1 compilers, a PE linker, and a runtime, supporting C89 and many C99 features.

- Magnitude: 4.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 184 total · +10 stars measured 2026-10-22, 00:37–04:07 UTC, ≈ 55 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: C · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-20 · Last push: 2026-10-20
- GitHub: https://github.com/tombkeeper/BitKindle · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/tombkeeper/BitKindle

## Useful for

- Build a Windows x64 C compiler from a 3,584-byte machine-code seed without MSVC, GCC, or Clang
- Compile and run the hello.c example using the generated C1 compiler
- Verify compiler self-hosting by comparing two successive builds for byte-identical output

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 00:37–04:07: 174 → 184 stars (+10). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +55 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 184 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #117.
- About 16 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 21
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 80 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-20 … 2026-10-22: 130, 55, 10

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-21 4.9, 10-22 4.7

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #117

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-22 04:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.