Re: jinx

[Philip Kaludercic]

Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> writes:

> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
>
>> I think that's no longer true, LanguageTool is available (and has been for 
>> ~20 years): https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool .  But it's 
>> written in Java...
>
> There is also Vale [1], a program written in Go and released under the
> MIT license.  It now even supports the Org mode format (along with
> Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, and XML).
>
> [1] https://github.com/errata-ai/vale

This seems to be on a different level than what LanguageTool does.  Vale
and other alternatives are style-checkers that catch mistakes matching
some fixed rules, without any "understanding" (linguistic model) of the
underlying language.  IIUC it could be compared to font-locking using
regular expressions or a library like Tree Sitter.