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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?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 01 2019, @09:48PM
Ya, I'm the AC you're replying to, and I was working during most of the 90s. The funny thing to me is that the vast majority of those people never had anything happen to them as a direct result of MS that wasn't just about the same from any other source.
If anything, MS is *worse* now, but not because of their own ideology. They're worse because they picked up bad habits from Google and Facebook. Windows 10 is trying to monetize you and spy on you every single day. Prior versions of Windows only monetized you for the license. Once you paid that, you were done being monetized and if you got spied on it was usually your own fault.
I miss those old days--when MS got bashed for copying everything good. Now they don't get bashed nearly enough for copying everything *bad*.