Microsoft brings lots of new features and improvements to its popular open-source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.

Discover the game-changing VS Code extensions that every Python developer needs. Boost productivity, catch errors in real-time, and make coding more intuitive with these must-have tools.

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

Setting up Visual Studio Code Even though Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft product, it’s available for all three major development platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.