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Harper

Harper is an offline, privacy-first English grammar checker developed by Automattic and written in Rust. It analyzes drafts locally, with a low memory footprint, and can be loaded through WebAssembly. The project provides integrations for Visual Studio Code, Neovim, Helix, Emacs, Zed, Obsidian, Chrome, and other browsers, along with a language server and a JavaScript package. English is currently supported, while the core is designed to be extensible to other languages.

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  • An offline, privacy-first English grammar checker written in Rust. It runs locally with a small memory footprint and integrates with editors, Obsidian, Chrome, and browsers through WebAssembly.

  • An offline English grammar checker that keeps drafts on the user's machine. It integrates with editors such as VS Code, Neovim, Zed, and Emacs, and provides a language server and JavaScript package.

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