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 ...

In 2026, the 'surrounding environment' of Python development has changed even more significantly than Python itself.We have moved from using pip and venv individually to managing entire projects ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

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 ...

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 ...