I'm a little sad that Ruff took off as a re-implementation of a whole bunch of work that was already done, rather than as a project to improve the work that was already done.
It was nice to be able to write little extra linters or flake8 plugins in the language I was linting. Plus decades of effort had gone into making those plugins pretty great, finding the right separation of linting codes so that the right things could be linted/ignored per codebase.
I understand why they did it, and they have done it remarkably well, but "rewrite it from scratch" is almost never the best answer and part of me wonders if this result could have been even better achieved another way.
It was nice to be able to write little extra linters or flake8 plugins in the language I was linting. Plus decades of effort had gone into making those plugins pretty great, finding the right separation of linting codes so that the right things could be linted/ignored per codebase.
I understand why they did it, and they have done it remarkably well, but "rewrite it from scratch" is almost never the best answer and part of me wonders if this result could have been even better achieved another way.