Ruff creator: none of the fast-iteration Rust compilers can build Ruff yet

charliermarsh · x · 2026-10-21

Charlie Marsh adds a disclaimer: these fast-iteration Rust alternative implementations are all quite early—he hasn't been able to get any of them to build Ruff, and hasn't read their code himself. He's more interested in the ideas being explored and whether they could evolve upstream.

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