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Yes ! Probably the fastest I've seen a set of tools be adopted. It's the gold standard now.
In my new job and old job, we used both uv and ruff. The move to uv took a bit longer in the new job because it involved changes across 1000+ engineers. But it got done. Ruff integration in both cases was trivial.
uv was transformational. It is a great tool, yes. But a big part of it had to do with the dire state of python packaging it replaced. Another part of it had to do with the drop-in nature of it. The porting experience gave me a ton of joy.
ruff is great. It primarily solves annoyances. Some people still use flake8, black, isort and 20 other tools. But most greenfield projects are starting with ruff. But now that ruff is popular, you can share and steal complex linting/formatting logic in public to make it more powerful.
ty is new. Technically still in beta. We use based-pyright which is also new. It's stable and works. But we only run based-pyright as a pre-commit hook. ty is 10x faster, so once it is stable, we will be able to run it aggressively on saves. We've tried ty internally and senior devx people are excited. But, we're waiting for it to reach 1.x major version before making the port. Majority of python repos either don't have type checking or use mypy which is about 50x slower and annoying to use. So most team should see a bigger improvement than what we'd experience.
If I to guess, astral wants to work their way up to a JIT compiler for python (like pypy). If the linter and type-checker can enforce strong code behaviors then a JIT compiler should technically be build-able for python. But, the future is any one's guess.
Between you, @Pasha and @ChickenOverlord that's a pretty positive response. I guess I have some new tools to learn :)
Python is still shit, but less shit than it was. And still less shit than JavaScript, of course.
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