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6 alternatives to ruff

astral-sh/ruff — An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust. (50,235 stars, MIT, dev-tools, testing, ui).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,938 licence-cleared components from astral-sh/ruff itself.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1kamadorueda/alejandra4.7Unlicense1,415
2linthtml/linthtml4.4ISC102
3realm/swiftlint6.2MIT19,767
4postcss/postcss-bem-linter4.6MIT574
5mgechev/codelyzer4.6MIT2,465
6straker/livingcss5.0MIT241

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