The Genesis of 'rough': From Tooling Pain to Innovating Python Tooling

The Ruff linter is a Python linter written in Rust that is super fast. The people behind Ruff recently released a new tool that is a part of Ruff that allows Ruff to format your Python code using the Black rules.

In this episode, I speak with Charlie Marsh, the original creator of Ruff and the founder of Astral, the company behind Ruff.

In this episode, we talked about:

* The Ruff formatter and linter

* How Ruff came about

* The hardest features to create

* The future of Ruff

* Python vs Rust

* and more!

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