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.

The March 2020 update to Microsoft's wildly popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code focused on improving quality via bug fixes, but it did introduce a new debugger.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Microsoft has released the first Windows version of DTrace, its Linux debugging tool, for 64-bit Windows 10 beta builds. Microsoft has its own ETW (Event Tracing for Windows) tool, but said ETW is ...

Microsoft has revealed that developers who use Visual Studio Code can now run it in a web browser. In other words, the Redmond company just made it ...

According to Microsoft, “Visual Studio Code can easily be installed at the same time as Anaconda, providing a great editing and debugging experience for Python users, with special features ...

Microsoft has also contributed to the Python codebase directly in the past. A major key addition for Python 3.6 was PEP 523, a change to Python’s C API to make it possible for debugging tools ...