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Ruff and Flake8. 2 alternatives to Pylint, in Rust, Python. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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2 open source alternatives to Pylint
Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Ruff	Partial	51k	MIT	Open source	No	Rust	0.17.4	2026-11-12
Flake8	Partial	3.8k	Other	Open source	No	Python	7.5.0	2026-11-04

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2 alternatives

Ruff Partial

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

Covers part of Pylint's rules.

Language: Rust
Licence: MIT
Stars: 51k
Latest: 0.17.4
Last push: 2026-11-12

Flake8 Partial

flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.

Style and error checks from pycodestyle and pyflakes, with fewer rules and no deeper code analysis.

Language: Python
Licence: Other
Stars: 3.8k
Latest: 7.5.0
Last push: 2026-11-04

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Language: Python
Licence: GPL-2.0
Stars: 5.7k
Last push: 2026-11-10

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