languagetool mit Homebrew, chocolatey, Nix, pacman, zypper, MacPorts, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• languagetool
• languagetool-gui
• languagetool-server

Projektgeschichte

LanguageTool's upstream repository describes it as proofreading software for English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, and more than 20 other languages, with checks that go beyond a simple spell checker. The project exposes both standalone tooling and a server/API surface, which made it reusable by editors, browser extensions, command-line wrappers, and language-specific clients.

The official roadmap records a long 1.x-to-6.x release train. Version 1.2 was released on 2011-01-02, version 2.0 on 2012-12-30, version 3.0 on 2015-06-29, version 4.0 on 2017-12-29, version 5.0 on 2020-06-27, and version 6.0 on 2022-12-29. Release-manager documentation states that in March 2025 LanguageTool switched to a snapshot-based release model.

Adoptionsgeschichte

LanguageTool's adoption is unusually broad for an open-source writing tool because it serves both end users and developers. It is packaged by Homebrew, Nix, MacPorts, Arch, Scoop, Chocolatey, and other ecosystems in the input facts, while the HTTP API and self-hosted server have made it a backend for editor plugins, browser integrations, CI checks, and third-party libraries.

The dev site maintains documentation for supported languages, plugin/add-on usage, LaTeX checking, n-gram data, the public HTTP server, and running a private server. That split between application, server, and API is the main reason package ecosystems carry it even when users never launch the GUI.

Wie es verwendet wird

Homebrew installs executables for the command-line checker, GUI, and server. Server users configure behavior with `server.properties`, while API users send text to the documented HTTP endpoints or run their own server for local/private checking.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, LanguageTool is the canonical open-source grammar-checker package: big Java application, language-rule corpus, HTTP server, and enough downstream clients that packaging the core project unlocks many workflows. It is also a common comparison point for smaller tools such as `languagetool-rust` and editor-specific checkers.

Zeitleiste

• 2011-01-02: Version 1.2 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2012-12-30: Version 2.0 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2015-06-29: Version 3.0 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2017-12-29: Version 4.0 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2020-06-27: Version 5.0 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2022-12-29: Version 6.0 release recorded in the official roadmap.
• 2025-03: Release-manager documentation says LanguageTool switched to a snapshot-based release model.

Related projects

• Related projects include LanguageTool browser and editor integrations, the LanguageTool HTTP API, n-gram data resources, and client libraries such as LanguageTool-Rust.

Quellen

• https://dev.languagetool.org/
• https://dev.languagetool.org/how-to-make-a-languagetool-release.html
• https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool
• https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool-org.github.io/blob/master/roadmap.md
• https://languagetool.org/http-api