Microsoft is rolling out a new Python Environments extension in VS Code, now reaching 20% of stable channel users. The tool ...

Python is perhaps the most important language for VS Code developers, as those three extensions top the popularity leaderboard by a huge margin and together account for a whopping 360 million installs ...

When you start a new project, VS Code will often suggest essential extensions—such as Java IntelliSense for Java projects or Python tools for Python development.

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

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

In fact, you’re cautioned not to install the usual VS Code extensions for R and Python in Positron, since the IDE already comes with that functionality built-in.