Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a 'full' language server mode for Pylance, ...

Microsoft has made its Pylance language server the default on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

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

Proprietary creep Perhaps more notably, Microsoft has decided to ditch the open source Python language server that powered the extension, in favor of the closed source Pylance.

The Python VS Code extension includes the Pylance extension for linting and type-checking Python code. It also provides live feedback on code through its language server, for the sake of ...