The Grammar Checker That Gets Developers
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The post introduces Harper, a grammar checker for developers, but the discussion revolves around its presentation, ownership by Automattic, and lack of clear information about its open-source status.
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The goods: https://github.com/Automattic/harper (Apache 2)
Also, 'grammar' in this context is English grammar, not parsers, and no other languages