The Positron IDE is available in public beta as of today for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Created by Boston-based Posit PBC, formerly RStudio, Positron is based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.

In what might be seen as a challenge to the super-popular combination of Visual Studio Code and its Python extension, JetBrains is testing its own IDE for data scientists. Called JetBrains DataSpell, ...