SymSpell vs goSpellcheck

SymSpell

A JavaScript implementation of the Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm. (by IceCreamYou)

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goSpellcheck

A terrible spell checker in Go. (by victorqribeiro)

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SymSpell		goSpellcheck
	Project
1	Mentions	1
9	Stars	1
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 10 years ago	Latest Commit	over 5 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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SymSpell

Posts with mentions or reviews of SymSpell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-15.

Rebuilding the spellchecker, pt.3: Lookup–compounds and solutions
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2021

For what I know (I've mentioned it in the first part[0]), the nspell[1] is the most close to "port (some) of Hunspell", and typo.js[2] ports even less (but might be enough for some, we used it in my previous company: it uses dictionaries for lookup, but uses its own simplistic suggest, which I needed to tweak a lot).
SymSpell algorithm (which is quite different, I'll go into it in the next part to some extent) is much easier to port, so there is a JS SymSpell port[3] (which seems abandoned though).
0: https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-01-05-spellchecker-1.html
1: https://github.com/wooorm/nspell
2: https://github.com/cfinke/Typo.js/
3: https://github.com/IceCreamYou/SymSpell

goSpellcheck

Posts with mentions or reviews of goSpellcheck. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-15.

Rebuilding the spellchecker, pt.3: Lookup–compounds and solutions
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2021

Great tool, it was my first contact with spellchecks. Back that I was working for a company that does translations powered by machine learning. Back then I was a student and as the article mentioned I was one of the naive ones to think that a spellcheck is an easy thing to build.
https://github.com/victorqribeiro/goSpellcheck
I wrote this originally in python, then I ported it to go. Back then I had plans to improve it. I believe that the most erros would be due to miss press of keys. I was sketching an algorithm to find similar words given a dictionary. Soon I had to deal with other projects (from college) and I let the spellcheck to the smart people.