I believe failing to recommend parinfer to a newbie doesn't make sense in any case, as it binds a very common issue for newcomers (the parentheses management) with something that is very intuitive, indentation with meaning, which in my opinion is part of the huge success of python.
I used parinfer for a 1-2 months. Then I quit and switched back. Wayyyy too many silent errors that get introduced and you don't notice them until runtime. Especially if you edit code that other people wrote.
I've also seen at least 4 people in the chats/forums that had errors because of parinfer. So no, I won't recommend it to a beginner.
Ok, that's a fair point. If you open code indented somewhere else, there might be changes.
In my experience, as my IDE (Intellij Idea) highlights lines that are changes for git, these errors are trivially detected. But perhaps for a newbie, this could be confusing? In any case I still think it is a net win.
I believe failing to recommend parinfer to a newbie doesn't make sense in any case, as it binds a very common issue for newcomers (the parentheses management) with something that is very intuitive, indentation with meaning, which in my opinion is part of the huge success of python.