Replace pre-commit with alternative?

[rsyring]

https://prek.j178.dev/

[bchopson]

There's also https://github.com/jdx/hk from the creator of mise.

I don't find pre-commit to be slow enough to be an annoyance locally, but open to other options.

[rsyring]

Also: https://github.com/evilmartians/lefthook

I don't find pre-commit to be slow enough to be an annoyance locally, but open to other options.

It's noticeably slow if you don't install the package that hijacks the pre-commit code to use uv. Coppy uses that so it's not that bad.

My main reason for considering an alternative is that the developer of pre-commit is pretty hostile and I think, long term, the project will crash. Slightly more on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976351

[bchopson]

Yikes. I have sensed a bit of an "attitude" from that developer which I interpreted to be developer burnout. Sounds like it's gotten a bit extreme.

[bchopson]

Compared to hk, it sounds like prek is more widely used and tracks more closely to pre-commit usage.

[bchopson]

You can use prek with mise use prek

[rsyring]

I have a project using prek we could use for a template for this:

https://github.com/level12/skillz/commits/main/?since=2026-04-26&until=2026-04-26