[decko]

I have a few of their boards and my experience with them could have been a lot better.

Their documentation is rather poor. Parameters to function/constructors are often left out, leaving you to go through the source to figure out how stuff works.

The standard modules can have different functions/variables between different boards. It makes sense since some boards have capabilities others don't. However there is no documentation on this.

Finally, in my opinion, some of the adafruit_* libraries are not well designed. There are many "kitchen sink" libraries that try to do everything. I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled...

[brennen]

> I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled...

I haven't touched any of the CircuitPython hardware libraries in... Well, something close to two years by now, I think. A lot has probably changed. Still, when I was last involved, placating pylint was consistently a hassle.

As I recall it squawks about things like identifiers that don't conform to snake_case. All well and good as a general stylistic suggestion, but not especially helpful when that's what the thing is called.

There may be some bad ideas lurking in places where those checks are disabled, but in general I blame no one for disabling one or more of its checks in service of greater readability or better code layout.