For its part, Microsoft documentation says: "Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build and debug apps for Linux using C++, Python, and Node.js." Of course, that's a far cry from running the IDE natively ...

Setting up Visual Studio Code for Python development Click on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the side of the window (it looks like four squares). In the search bar, type “Python”.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac includes a preview of a new text editor that's built on the same engine as the one in Visual Studio for Windows, with a native macOS user interface and capabilities.

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

Linux support, the most-requested feature for Visual Studio Code Live Share -- which allows real-time collaboration among developers on different machines and platforms -- was announced this week.

As mentioned, most Linux machines will come with Python built in, but if yours doesn’t, you’ll need to grab the interpreter. From there, you can go ahead and set up Visual Studio Code for Python.