Is this also a some kind of a Trojan/malware attack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48594733

https://pypi.org/project/prylint/

> A Rust reimplementation of pylint that produces byte-for-byte identical output — 15–2300× faster (median ~85×).

> prylint is not "inspired by" pylint. [...] Where pylint has bugs, prylint reproduces them. Where pylint crashes, prylint reports the same crash message.