Biome vs Ormolu

Biome is a toolchain for maintaining the health of web projects. It formats JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, JSON, HTML, CSS, and GraphQL, and provides lint rules for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, CSS, and GraphQL. Linting can report diagnostics and apply safe fixes. Its check command can format files, lint them, and organize imports in one run. Biome is distributed as a standalone executable, so it does not require Node.js. Installation instructions cover npm, pnpm, bun, deno, and yarn. First-party editor extensions are available for VS Code, IntelliJ, and Zed; community extensions include Vim, Neovim, and Sublime Text. The getting-started guide links to CI integrations for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Biome describes itself as open source and lists MIT or Apache 2.0 licensing. The open-source toolchain is free. Contributors may offer commercial support, but requests depend on their availability.

Ormolu is a formatter for Haskell source code. It uses GHC’s parser and applies one consistent style, with the aim of keeping diffs small. That style cannot be configured, and the project aims to leave code unchanged when it is formatted again after already meeting the style. Release binaries are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows; installation through cabal or stack is also supported. Ormolu Live provides a browser version. Listed editor integrations cover Emacs, VS Code, and Vim through neoformat or vim-ormolu, and Haskell Language Server has built-in support for Ormolu. For continuous integration, the project recommends the run-ormolu GitHub Action. It reads default language extensions and dependencies from a matching Cabal file;.ormolu files can specify fixity overrides and module re-export instructions. CPP support remains experimental and works only in simple cases where conditionals surround top-level declarations. Ormolu is open source and free, with a listed plan price of free.