Consider enabling type & parameter hints by default

It’s a bit hard to discover that they exist! As a case point, I (of all the people 😃 ) spend yesterday’s evening wishing for them to exist, only to realize this morning, after reading rel-notes, that they do in fact exist, just not enabled by default.

There’s two helpful guidelines here:

• by default, it makes sense to enable features, as it is much easier to disable annoying feature than to enable the feature you’d love, but don’t realize exists
• there’s editor-global setting "editor.inlayHints.enabled", and extensions should generally honor that. It’s on for me (and by default I guess), so I have the expectation of inlay hints showing up, if they exist

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On the first point, my long-term unrealized wish for rust-analyzer is to have to settings “profiles”: default, which enables everything and makes the editor glow like a Christmas tree, and a recommended profile, with a more no-frills config I’d actually use. The intention here is that new users don’t miss features, while pro users get a good config without needing to know about every setting.

[dsherret]

I personally dislike it as well, but it seems like the majority of people like it. The vscode default is for it to be on so I think it makes sense for us to follow and honour that.

Note to others, you can easily disable it by adding:

{
  // etc...
   "editor.inlayHints.enabled": "off"
}

…to your vscode user settings.json (hit f1 key, then search for Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)). Or otherwise go to File > Preferences > Settings, then search for “Inlay hints” and turn it off.

[dsherret]

That seems to be the case. I was referring to the inlay hints default.