ormolu VS brittany

Compare ormolu vs brittany and see what are their differences.

ormolu

A formatter for Haskell source code (by tweag)

brittany

haskell source code formatter (by lspitzner)
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ormolu brittany
7 7
914 689
1.0% -
8.0 0.0
17 days ago over 1 year ago
Haskell Haskell
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only
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ormolu

Posts with mentions or reviews of ormolu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-28.

brittany

Posts with mentions or reviews of brittany. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-23.
  • Format multiline imports in hls (emacs)
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2022
    You will also need a formatter that uses that style. Brittany for example. The default formattingProvider for HLS is ormolu, which I believe doesn't use this style, so you will have to change this setting.
  • Why is there no "standard" formatting tool for haskell?
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 Jan 2022
    For Haskell I use Brittany with this config:
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 Jan 2022
    Yeah I couldn't find anything at all which is really unfortunate. You could check out the config source code
  • Advent of Code 2021 day 1
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Dec 2021
    Turns out I prefer Brittany to Ormolu, I edited it so it hopefully looks less verbose all on one line
  • Let's talk about Brittany
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2021
    I use Brittany and prefer it to Ormolu, because it aligns more things and it break lines that are too long automatically. I have recently tried to figure out how I could implement a solution to https://github.com/lspitzner/brittany/issues/157, but it is quite hard to figure out which parts of the code would be involved in such a change. And I don't really have enough time to make steady contributions, but I will probably try to make a few contributions sometime.
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2021
    I would say that development has stalled: https://github.com/lspitzner/brittany/issues/322

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ormolu and brittany you can also consider the following projects:

fourmolu - A fourk of ormolu that uses four space indentation and allows arbitrary configuration. Don't like it? PRs welcome!

stylish-haskell - Haskell code prettifier [Moved to: https://github.com/haskell/stylish-haskell]

haskell-language-server - Official haskell ide support via language server (LSP). Successor of ghcide & haskell-ide-engine.

hlint - Haskell source code suggestions

hadolint - Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell

axel - Haskell + Lisp

fugue - A recapitulated prelude with minimal dependencies and profligate exports.

normalize-imports - Sort and align Haskell import statements

lsp-haskell - lsp-mode :heart: haskell

ihaskell - A Haskell kernel for the Jupyter project.

hfmt - Format Haskell programs. Inspired by the gofmt utility.

repl - Public friendly Haskell REPL