proselint VS markdownlint

Compare proselint vs markdownlint and see what are their differences.

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proselint markdownlint
9 2
4,275 1,700
0.4% 1.1%
4.2 6.4
3 months ago 3 months ago
Python Ruby
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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proselint

Posts with mentions or reviews of proselint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-27.

markdownlint

Posts with mentions or reviews of markdownlint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.
  • Markdown Linting
    9 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2021
    markdownlint is a node.js markdown linter that is easy to install and easy to customize. It is based on an earlier Ruby tool, also called markdownlint. Both are great, but the Node.js tool is easy to install and easy to customize.
  • Docker Build `--replace`
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Apr 2021
    An example of where this can be convenient is when you want to use an external program or project that uses a language that isn't supported by your project. For example, the build process for this blog's content uses Node.js, but consider the case where I wanted to use a Markdown linter defined in Ruby, such as Markdownlint. One option is to add a Ruby installation directly to the definition of the build environment, but this has a few disadvantages:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proselint and markdownlint you can also consider the following projects:

vim-pencil - Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

vale - :pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.

vale-styles - Checks for Vale based on popular style guides

write-good - Naive linter for English prose

novelWriter - novelWriter is an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text. It is written with Python 3 (3.8+) and Qt 5 (5.15.0+) for cross-platform support.

docs - Linode guides and tutorials.

lsp-grammarly - lsp-mode ❤️ grammarly

alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

coc-diagnostic - diagnostic-languageserver extension for coc.nvim

markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.