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Comment by blks

1 day ago

Every new single piece of software calls itself “extremely fast”, “blazingly fast”, it gets tiring.

ruff is not new. It's also truly really fast. On an as-yet un-ruff'ed 32k SLOC python package it returns in 158ms finding 2k errors. Having it fix errors is also very fast.

What's really tiring is reading such facile "critiques", especially when they are not even applicable.

  • I’m not claiming it’s not fast, I’m commenting on general trend in how many projects market themselves

Broadly you have a point. In this case I would expect a Rust-based Python linter to run significantly faster than one writen in Python itself (e.g., pylint).

Compare it to some of the other options in that space and you'll see why that was a selling point.