Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

There are also a total of 66 fixes in this update to the Python extension for VS Code. Microsoft also highlighted that the Python debugger supports the Jump to Cursor feature.

News Python in Visual Studio Code Enhances Debugging By David Ramel 12/12/2023 The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable ...

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

Use the Python extension for Visual Studio Code to create, manage, run, and test Python projects easily.