In August 2022, Charlie Marsh announced Ruff, which he called "an extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust". He showed how Ruff is 150 times faster than Flake8 on macOS when linting the Python ...

Rust-based uv package manager promises to be a drop-in replacement for pip and up to 115x faster than pip when running with a warm cache. Astral, which makes high-performance Python tools such as the ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

It's hard for a tool to tell if that import is unused or if it's a re-export. It has to analyze the full project to determine if FOO is used elsewhere, and it wouldn't work for a library that ...