Fast and Smart Long Handed Inserters?

[silman]

A search showed that one person has suggested this but no one seemed to reply to his post.

Currently Long handed inserters are slower than the fast/smart inserters, and as a result people tend to avoid using them. I think they are super useful and should have upgrades to fast and smart long handed inserters so that side-by-side belts can be used more often.

[DaveMcW]

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... php?t=5357

[VBMeireles]

I think the long handed inserter's long range is granted as a tradeoff against the speed (and "intelligence") of the short ranged options. I don't think it's necessary to have a fast/smart long handed inserter added to the vanilla game since it's easily and quickly moddable into the game as suggested by DaveMcW.

[Turtle]

If you only want smart inserters of the base game, you can download my Smart Inserters mod. The regular smart inserter is already fast, so I just added the smart basic inserter and the smart long-handed inserter.