Question: What is the plan for plugin support?

[ambroselittle]

Is it possible to provide backwards compat with pylint plugins, for example?

I had written one, but I do find pylint to be very slow (not just my plugin :) ), so would be happy to migrate to faster option.

[charliermarsh]

Ruff will almost certainly support plugins. I'm not certain when, but it's very important :)

I don't expect pylint (or Flake8) plugins to work out-of-the-box; instead, there'll be a separate plugin API to implement for Ruff specifically. I'm hoping that users will be able to write plugins in Rust or Python.

If your plugin is generic and/or OSS, I'm also happy to see if I can include those rules in Ruff directly, if it's helpful for you!

[ambroselittle]

Thank you. Ours is very context-specific.

OK. Supporting Python would definitely make it more feasible for us to adopt. 👍🏻

[charliermarsh]

Closing this for now in favor of #283.