Microsoft has released version 1.58 of Visual Studio Code, also known as the June 2021 release, with improvements related to usability, customization, debugging, and Jupyter Notebook support.

Less than a month after Microsoft released a Visual Studio Code extension to provide Java debugging, the company announced it was such a big hit that it's been improved and open sourced, as promised.

The new Debugpy debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code hits version 1.0 in the latest update of the Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

Version 1.0 of the new debugger for Python in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), called Debugpy, shows up in the latest update of the popular Python tooling for the open source, cross-platform code editor.

Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source Microsoft doubles down on cross-platform software development.

Code written and compiled in Code can be debugged on the Pico over a wired connection to your host Pi. The combination of Raspberry Pi and Visual Studio Code is a powerful one.