Microsoft has released a new version of the Python language extension for its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor that breaks out its Jupyter Notebooks functionality into a distinct VS Code ...

Visual Studio Code developers who subscribe to Insiders builds of Microsoft's Python extension now have access to improved support for the Jedi language server. VS Code's versatility depends upon ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

Microsoft officially pounded the last nail into the open source Microsoft Python Language Server coffin, replacing it with the company's proprietary Pylance extension for coding with Python in Visual ...

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

A new WhatsApp-propagating worm is infecting devices in Brazil, delivering a banking trojan called Eternidade (Portuguese for ...

TIOBE Index has named Python as the programming language of 2021. The TIOBE index is based on the number of search results for a programming language across popular search engines, which is pretty ...

Andrei Alexandrescu is, according to his website, a research scientist at Facebook, and he’s just announced via a tweet that he’s just completed the “First D language commit at Facebook. 5112 lines of ...

What's the best IDE for Python? Here's how IDLE, Komodo, PyCharm, PyDev, Microsoft's Python and Python Tools extensions for Visual Studio Code, and Spyder stack up. Of all the metrics you could use to ...

A few months ago, I had a discussion with some friends online. The premise of the discussion was that even if you account for complexity, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free code. As a C ...