The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio ...

New extension pack bundles VS Code extensions for Python language support, Jupyter notebooks, data wrangling, and the GitHub Copilot AI-powered programming assistant.

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.

The VS Code team is well-known for going all in on Python development, but the Visual Studio IDE team has also been busy in adding and improving features for using the popular and growing programming ...

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...

Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.

For C# developers, GCC came out on top too, but Visual Studio was the top IDE, followed by JetBrains Rider, while Windows was the dominant development environment.