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by kylebarron 1280 days ago
VSCode doesn't support an API to put outputs inline in the text editor. IIRC there have been longstanding feature requests for it but it would probably have a performance hit. The closest thing is having a separate output window on the right side
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taink 1280 days ago
I don't think it's an API problem, because Scala Worksheets work in VSCode[0] (and in most editors actually).

[0] https://scalameta.org/metals/docs/editors/vscode/#worksheets

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kylebarron 1280 days ago
I think you're referring to the "inlay hint" API, which is different from being able to visualize any HTML in the current text editor, like Hydrogen is able to: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/13285808/20360886...
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__ryan__ 1280 days ago
VSCode’s Jupyter Notebooks is slightly different from Hydrogen in that it’s basically a MarkDown document with executable code blocks (cells) in the text editor that show their output in the text editor.

Again, not exactly the same as Hydrogen but there’s definitely some overlap in use cases and VSCode’s Jupyter Notebooks is pretty good. You should give it a shot and see if it’s a viable replacement for what you were using Hydrogen for.

This showcases the UI a bit if I’m not being clear: https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/educators/notebooks

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kylebarron 1280 days ago
That's exactly my complaint though. I don't want to work in a notebook frame of mind. I don't want to have to demarcate `#%%` every time I run code (especially because you'd need to scroll down to put another `#%%` where the code you're running should stop.)

As I noted in a sibling comment, I wrote a quick extension [0] that makes this easier by automatically inferring code blocks, but VSCode Jupyter is lacking in other ways: you can't have multiple Jupyter kernels running at the same time and it doesn't show you runtime completions in the editor (necessary for compiled packages without type support).

[0]: https://github.com/kylebarron/vscode-jupyter-python

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satvikpendem 1280 days ago
Is that not what Jupyter notebook support is about? I can run something and see the output below the code.
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kylebarron 1280 days ago
But with Hydrogen you could do that in a regular Python script without needing to create a notebook or think in terms of cells. There's an example of this in the Hydrogen readme: https://github.com/nteract/hydrogen#hydrogen-
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