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

Faster start-up times for the Jupyter Notebook editor and associated server highlight the February update to the wildly popular Python Extension for Visual Studio Code.

JetBrains has split the latest edition of its PyCharm Python IDE (integrated development environment) into two editions, the paid professional edition and a new free community edition.