Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite.

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.

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

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 ...

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Microsoft announced the Python Language Server, which will allow them to extend their support of Python to tools other than 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.

Visual Studio is widely acknowledged to be the best development environment for .NET Framework developers. But Microsoft is working to go beyond that group, trying to become a top IDE for other ...