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by microcolonel 3676 days ago
Hemingway is actually pretty simple, I'm writing a library which implements something similar. "Grammarly" exists, but I think the suggestions are silly. This Foxtype editor is fancy, but Hemingway produces better results in practice.

What programming language would a library for this have to be in for it to be especially useful? I'm doing it in JavaScript for now, since I can think of immediate cases where I can embed it. Elisp will come immediately after that, since I compose my emails in Emacs most of the time. Next on the docket might be a C version, with the intent that you could add it to GTK+ apps.

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> What programming language would a library for this have to be in for it to be especially useful? I'm doing it in JavaScript for now, since I can think of immediate cases where I can embed it.

I think JavaScript is a pretty good start as that can be made into a browser plugin and a command line tool relatively simply.