Microsoft's open-source Visual Studio Code is growing hand in hand with Python.

Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far more productive.

That fits the pattern, as features typically appear in VS Code 3 to 4 months before they are introduced in Visual Studio 2022. Upon its debut we tried NES in VS Code and dubbed it "tab, tab, tab ...

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server.