Microsoft's separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.

The October 2021 update to Python in Visual Studio Code continues to boost notebook functionality, now adding the ability to debug Jupyter Notebooks.

On the other hand, PyXLL-Jupyter operates locally, on your device. This gives you total control over your Python environment and data.

Faster start-up times for the Jupyter Notebook editor and associated server highlight the February update to the wildly popular Python Extension for Visual Studio Code.