Just in case there was any doubt, Microsoft quietly confirmed it won't be adding support for Facebook's React Native -- the game-changing way to build iOS and Android mobile apps with JavaScript -- to ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Microsoft highlights work done to support React Native 0.64, for using JavaScript and React library for Windows 10 devices.

Within Visual Studio, developers can install support for Python by either selecting the Python Development workload or the Data science and analytical applications workload.