Re: What exactly is Harper?

Richard Stallman <[email protected]> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> Before the detailed decisions about how an Emacs interface to Harper
> would work, there comes a crucial initial question: What _is_ Harper?
> What does that "install page" actually install?

What install page?  From https://writewithharper.com/:

  Harper is a free, open-source grammar checker designed to be just
  right. Think of it as the private alternative to Grammarly, built
  after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.

Grammarly is a service for grammar checking.

> Is it a program that installs on your own computer and runs locally?

Yes.

> If so, what language is it written in?

Rust.

> Does Harper communicate with servers to do its work?  If so,
> what jobs do those servers do?  

No, it is all offline, that is the selling point.

> If all this information is known to us, would somene please do
> me the favor of forwarding the pertinent emails with the same
> Subject as this message?

All this information is available on the website I linked to in my first
message, and the website is usable without Javascript.

> Please do not install anything in ELPA or Emacs relating to Harper
> until we know the answers to these questions and have judged them.

The package has already been added to GNU ELPA.