alt Hacker News> the time to develop it [not] from scratch in their free time, or the money...
How do you think the magic of open source resolves this issue? Think about this for it to make some sense
> I would simply fork
The only simple part here is pressing the "fork" button, which only gives you exactly the same code that already exists, without user awareness or distribution
you're moving the goalposts now. I never said it would be easy to get used awareness or adoption, just that it would be a lot easier to write a new linter by forking and continuing ruff development than it would doing so from scratch.
as to how the magic of open source resolves the time and money issue, it literally gives you the building blocks you need to not have to invent everything from scratch. how is that not significant?