`Ruff` as a linter for Piccolo about piccolo

[dantownsend]

Yeah, I've seen that is has become very popular.

My understanding is it's a replacement for flake8. I've never really had issues with the performance of flake8 - even though Piccolo is a pretty big project, I think the performance difference is probably more apparent when there's 100,000's or millions of lines of code.

[dantownsend]

I'm not sure if it gives a better developer experience in VSCode. I know VSCode is power hungry on my laptop, partially due to the all of the linters etc being run.

[sinisaos]

I don't know about VS Code, I ran it from the terminal with ./scripts/lint.sh and Ruff executes in no time. Ruff also found a couple of E721 Do not compare types, use isinstance() like here https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo/blob/83ea66323ef5a8e4010ea3ee19f34163bc881ace/piccolo/query/mixins.py#L114C9-L114C39
which should be if not isinstance(self.interval, str):, but we can fix it without Ruff.
This was just an idea and if you think there won't be any special benefits, I'll close this issue.