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What both publish
| Fact | Ormolu | rustfmt |
|---|---|---|
| Editor integrations | The README lists integrations for Emacs, VS Code, and Vim through neoformat or vim-ormolu. | The README lists integrations or usage instructions for Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text 3, Atom, Visual Studio Code, and IntelliJ or CLion. |
| License | The project’s license permits redistribution and use in source and binary forms subject to stated conditions and provides the software “as is.” | rustfmt is distributed under both the MIT License and Apache License 2.0. |
| Limitations | CPP support is experimental and works only in simple cases where CPP conditionals surround top-level declarations. | The README lists limitations involving unparsable code, macros, comments, code fragments, non-ASCII Unicode, and bugs. |
| Purpose | Ormolu is a formatter for Haskell source code. | rustfmt formats Rust code according to style guidelines. |
Ormolu plans
- OrmoluFree
rustfmt plans
- rustfmtFree
Pick Ormolu if…
Ormolu suits Haskell developers who want a single shared formatting style across editors or CI. It also offers a browser version for trying the formatter without installing the desktop binaries.
Pick rustfmt if…
rustfmt suits Rust developers who want consistent formatting through Cargo, an editor, or CI. It is also relevant to developers who need configurable formatting behavior.