Pylance ne remplace pas l'extension Python existante de Visual Studio Code, créée par Microsoft, qui compte quelque 21 millions d'installations.

Use the Python extension for Visual Studio Code to create, manage, run, and test Python projects easily.

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page highlighting the latest features, changes, tutorials and more.

Microsoft announced more improvements for the new Python language server for Visual Studio Code, Pylance, specializing in rich type information.