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.

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

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.