Microsoft announced March 2024 updates to its Python and Java extensions for Visual Studio Code, the open source-based, cross-platform code editor that has repeatedly been named the No. 1 tool in ...

Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code updated its tooling to improve working with the language's interactive REPL functionality. Standing for Read-Eval-Print Loop, a REPL provides an ...

The January 2026 update has arrived.

Microsoft has pulled back the drapes on Pylance, a Visual Studio Code extension for faster and more complete Python language support in that popular code editor. Pylance doesn’t replace the existing ...

About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

In brief: If you've ever wanted to run Visual Studio code in a web browser, now you can. Microsoft has made a zero-installation version of the popular desktop app that can be used as a local ...

Some of the big updates in this update pertain to accessibility. If you’re a screen reader user, Microsoft has made the editor and terminal more compatible with readers. Additionally, Microsoft has ...