In this post we’ll take a tour of Python Developer tools in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure, and more. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn semantics with powerful capabilities for a wide variety of applications from writing scripts, to building web services, to building machine learning models. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. Predecessor VS Code 1.77, released March 30, previewed deeper integration with the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant.Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. VS Code for the Web now supports committing files to Git Large File Storage (LFS) in repositories hosted on GitHub.Screen reader users can exclude hints from a feature’s aria-label to decrease redundancy via the '-editor' and '' settings.A new snippet variable, CURRENT_TIMEZONE_OFFSET, returns the current timezone offset in the format +HHMM or -HHMM.Code Actions and Quick Fixes now are supported in the Source Control message box.An Accept Line command has been added, and Accept Word now works across lines. The inline completion feature has been rewritten and bugs fixed.This version of TypeScript currently is in a beta state.

Developers now can drag and drop image files into Markdown cells of notebooks to create attachments.Videos can be dragged and dropped into Markdown files.Continuous Run now can be turned on for individual tests.Users now can launch a standalone color picker in order to insert and replace colors.The js/ts.implicitProjectConfig.strictNullChecks setting can be used to enable strict nulls for JavaScript in HTML blocks.

While the old algorithm remains the default for the diff editor, plans call for slowly changing the default to the new algorithm and measuring its performance.

The new diff algorithm produces better diffs in many cases but might be slower for some documents.

The old diff algorithm is being deprecated.

Other new features and improvements in Visual Studio Code 1.78:

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