Comment by ChadNauseam

the meaning of the word "ruff" has nothing to do with formatting. Therefore it's harder to remember than "format". if they could just call the formatter "format", that would be best, but obviously that name is too overloaded. So they namespace it under a tool people already know, "uv".

Let's imagine you're learning a new language, which has tools with names that I just made up. Which has a clearer pattern to you?

    1. Check code with  `blargle check`
    2. Format code with `blargle format`
    3. Run code with    `blargle run`

Or

    1. Check code with  `zoop`
    2. Format code with `chungus`
    3. Run code with    `kachow`

Clearly, the first is easier to remember. The benefit of namespacing is that you only need to remember one weird/unique name, and then everything under that can have normal names. If you don't have namespacing, you need weird/unique names for every different tool.