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> If they stop development on Ruff today, Ruff won't be useful anymore after a few new Python releases

That is true for every single development tool in the Python space.

I do get the caution, but I think that even in that case there’s enough momentum behind Ruff for the community to fork and carry on.

Obviously it would be pretty crummy to end up in a situation like pyright where MS really have leant in to their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy.

People could just fork it if that happens. Since the foundation of the tooling is solid, I 'm sure the community would rally around a fork that keeps it going.