Writing in Visual Studio Code
I write this blog in Neovim, and I'm aware of a good number of other nerds who do the same. I suppose I never considered that people might use other code editors for writing prose. In fact, it seems that there are a nontrivial number of people using Harper in Visual Studio Code. They seem to be using Harper mostly for Markdown and comments in code, but I'd love to get working as well.
Published January 27, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Proofread by Harper.
Comments
Thanks for highlighting my post, Elijah! I really do appreciate the work you've done on Harper.
Thanks so much for the Harper project. I was using LanguageTools, but it was slow. It often crashed on large text blocks. Now they appear to have been bought out. I searched for alternatives, saw that Harper works within VS Code and the browsers. Installed the extension as a test, and it does exactly what I wanted. So far, so great!
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