ruff

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I have McCabe complexity switched on in Ruff and find it a handy watermark for when something should be broken up into smaller, individually testable callables”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-28

• “imposing ty and a few reasonable ruff rules (imposed with pre-commit so the agent can fix things automatically) improves agent-generated code a lot”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Just setting up the editor needed me to use 2-3 tools out of: pyright, basedpyright, ruff, ty, mypy, and possibly other tools I'm forgetting that kind of do the same thing but throw errors in different parts of the codebase”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “I've had a good experience developing small to medium sized Python programs/scripts using type annotations plus ruff connected to my editor through its LSP (Language Server Protocol). It helps a lot, and I don't like to write Python without it.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Ruff etc. are not type checkers, they're the cargo cult equivalent of what a Python developer imagines a type checker would be like if they had one.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-12

• “Pytest, mypy, ruff, jump-to-definition, refactor-rename, all of it just works”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-04

• “uv, ruff and mypy for fast repeatable package management, linting and type checking”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-18

• “add strong linting (ESLint with all recommended rules switched on, Ruff for Python) and asking to run it after each edit”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-04

• “I learned more Bash and Python from running Shellcheck and Ruff respectively”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2024-12-24