ALL Code Editors NEED THIS Feature (Inlay Hints)

[@UsernameUsername0000]

I’m pretty sure this has been in other JetBrains products like IntelliJ and Android Studio for years

[@Indently]

Looks like I'm late to the tea party as always

[@conradboehnke]

Yep, it's been there for ages... 😅 I believe it exists since Kotlin's first stable release in 2016 or something like this as in Kotlin inline hints are pretty useful 😄

[@Indently]

I actually just went back to my earlier videos when I used Kotlin for Android. They were indeed there ahah. Just looks like I completely forgot about them.@@conradboehnke

[@magnus9999]

Rider also has this feature for some time

[@conradboehnke]

Yea haha no worries :D It's still a feature that every code editor needs lmao @@Indently

[@paulzupan3732]

Neovim built-in LSP has had support for inlay hints for as long as I can remember

[@vikingthedude]

Really? How do I enable it?

[@sloan00]

How to enable inlay hints in VSCode: ctrl(cmd) + , > pylance > Analysis > Inlay hints

[@spectrapulse2104]

vscode has had this for a while now but it's not enabled by default just like in pycharm and looks a little less nice (or at least in my editor with my theme)

[@guanciottaman]

It's enabled in Pycharm by default

[@Lanxxe]

How do you activate this?

[@mabdurrafeyahmed9256]

how to activate in vscode

[@AWriterWandering]

@@mabdurrafeyahmed9256search for “Python inlay hint” in settings, and enable “Call argument names”

[@AWriterWandering]

One nice feature of the VSCode implementation is that you can double click the hint to turn it into a keyword parameter.

[@rkdeshdeepak4131]

"If you are coding in vim it's irrelevant. If you would like to use powerful code editor.." Lol, Neovim lsp has builtin support for this, and coc plugin has supported this for a long time.

[@Indently]

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't Neovim a more powerful version of Vim? Or do you have all the same features that you have in Neovim?

[@Indently]

Maybe no one uses Vim by itself anymore, but if you can use Inlay Hints in Vim, I retract my statement :)

[@sheep4483]

@@Indently The main draw to Neovim is that you can use Lua to program plugins for it, which ends up being faster, and generally a better programming experience than Vimscript, and they have also been adding functionality that is only accessible to Lua based plugins, including the ability to use a real GUI rather than acting solely as a terminal program. But it also has Vimscript support and therefore can run any Vim plugin. The aforementioned CoC plugin happens to be in Vimscript, so it can be run by both, but for Nvim the built in Nvim LSP is preferred. People still use Vim because you still pretty much have all the practical functionality you would really be looking for, and the only thing you actually lose is maybe some technically unnecessary features behind the scenes, and some fancy features, but ultimately Vimscript can already be used to program pretty much anything, so user-side there's not really much missing. Many things from NVim have actually been incorporated into Vim, but there are still various things that are missing (perhaps most painfully Lua).

[@murphygreen8484]

Noticed it automatically enabled in my PyCharm recently. Really like it!

[@PultsMoizer]

Yeah theyre great but like you alteady realised, not new xd. VS Code got Extensions for it, Visual Studio got them too and yeah, JetBrain Products overall too. So any User couls probably enable them

[@123FireSnake]

Recently? have they not had this for years now? Was that just IntelliJ that had it so far? But i do agree, every Code editor should have them, they are really usefull, not only for avoiding errors at coding time but also for understanding the code when you get dropped into a new project and need to understand what other people coded

[@Indently]

Apparently this is a recent update for Python devs 🤣

[@Cloudxxx23]

My pycharm community version does not have those except code vision, code author, Other, markdown.😏 bummer.

[@Indently]

You just have to update I think

[@alexh2665]

I hope someone makes a vs code extension that gives us this feature

[@LauPaSat-pl]

Look at other comments. It's already build-in

[@alexh2665]

@@LauPaSat-pl yeah I saw that but no one has said how to enable it since it isn’t a default setting other than on pycharm

[@HeyZReD]

Using positional arguments, instead of keyword arguments make code less readable, in my opinion. I think it makes the code sooo much easier to understand and code review when you have keyword arguments everywhere

[@Indently]

Personally I don't think that's a valid point to make in a video about inlay hints. I probably would not stop using keyword arguments because not all code editors support inlay hints, but inlay hints are literally implicit keyword arguments (only by look) so I don't understand how positional arguments would make your code less readable in any way if inlay hints are there.

[@HeyZReD]

@@Indently what i meant to say is that Inlay hints will make you use keyword arguments less. and i think keyword arguments are more readable (including outside of the code editor like a PR).