Harper is an English grammar checker designed to be just right. Harper takes advantage of decades of natural language research to analyze how exactly how your words come together. If something is off, Harper lets you know.
Most Harper users are catching their mistakes in Neovim, Obsidian , or Visual Studio Code.
Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool’s memory footprint, but it is also completely private.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Currently only supports American English but the core is extensible to support other languages.
- Small enough to load via WebAssembly.
- Supports a wide variety of programming languages
Website: github.com/Automattic/harper
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Developer: Elijah Potter
License: Apache License 2.0
Harper is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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