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Visual Studio Code Extension for Python Revamped

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 01 2019, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-microsoft! dept.

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Programming language Python's popular extension for Visual Studio Code revamped

While Python has become the go-to language for data scientists and machine-learning applications, VS Code – Microsoft's lightweight code editor that works on Windows, macOS, and Linux – has become somewhat of a hit with developers, even within Google.

In 2016, a year after Microsoft open-sourced VS Code it had 500,000 developers using it. By November 2017, VS Code had 2.6 million developers using it each month, representing year-on-year growth of 160 percent.

In December 2018, Microsoft chief marketing officer Chris Capossela told ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley and fellow Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott that the "majority of Google developers are using it now".

The open-source Microsoft editor now has 4.5 million users and was ranked the most popular developer environment for two years running in Stack Overflow's global developer survey.

Meanwhile, Python has seen a huge and sustained rise in popularity among developers, who now ask more questions each month on Stack Overflow about it than JavaScript, which historically has attracted the most questions.

The updated Python extension fixes 84 issues and now includes a Variable Explore and a Data Viewer within the Python Interactive window. The new features were "highly requested" from users, according to Microsoft, and will allow developers and data scientists to view, inspect and filter variables in their apps.

So fellow Soylentils, has anyone tried this combination as a Python IDE and if so, what did you think?

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  • (Score: 1) by bmimatt on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:51PM

    by bmimatt (5050) on Wednesday May 01 2019, @05:51PM (#837432)

    I am not a fan of corporate data gorging and I sometimes use Code*.
    I have never used and do not plan to use the full-blown VS from Microsoft, so can't really compare the two on IDE level, but...
    Just last week I wrote a relatively small Python module in Code and the experience was decent.
    Nothing to wrote home about, but I would not classify it as bad text editor.
    Because that's what it is to me - a text editor.

    * I generally block outgoing calls to motherships with Little Snitch, I do so with Code as well.