News Python in Visual Studio Code Enhances Debugging By David Ramel 12/12/2023 The December 2023 update to Python in Visual Studio Code introduces several new features, including configurable ...

The improvements are part of the VS Code extension for Python, which is currently the most popular programming language extension on Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace, with 16.2 million installs.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 26.6 million times, making the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

Microsoft updates its VS Code Python tooling regularly, and in March introduced the Debugpy debugger. "We're excited to announce that in this release we're including a new debugger, Debugpy," said ...