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

Python 3.13: Better interactive shell and finally multithreading without GIL The new Python release features an interactive command line and allows the global interpreter lock to be deactivated.

Open Interpreter is a versatile tool that allows large language models (LLMs) to run code in various languages such as Python, Javascript, Shell, and more, locally on your computer.

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code.