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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: 2) by Subsentient on Thursday May 02 2019, @06:33AM
I hate JavaScript with the fiery passion of a blue supergiant star. It's a terrible language. Node.JS is a fermented jar of hobo shit. At work, we're using it for some stuff, it's trying to install 6,000+ modules for a basic Electron GUI. JavaScript is a hideous language, too. Ironic that Python's type system is stricter. TypeScript is whipped cream on your grandpa's throbbing, infected asshole.
Python, for all its flaws, is decent.
Let's face it. It's decent. It's easy. The ecosystem is terrific. The syntax is -- mostly -- pretty clean. The addition of the walrus operator in 3.8 will help with a lot of the remaining ugliness. As controversial as it is, I strongly encourage everyone to use it as soon as 3.8 is an acceptable bare minimum for them, which for me, will be as soon as it hits Fedora's repos.
It's not fast -- but if you need fast, you should be writing it in C or C++ anyways, and I would very strongly encourage you to do so.
As for Visual Studio and Microsoft, they can die in a fire.
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